Agreed. I saw a photo of Hawk 1 a restored Sabre in RCAF markings and it struck me that they don't get any prettier then that. Somehow the Sabre captures the best of the WW2 era and brings it into the jet age before they got too computerized.
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This a/c is hangered across the river from where I live. I see Potter's Spit, Hurrie and P-51 flying occasionally but have yet to see the Golden Hawk.
Years ago at an air show at Rockcliffe, the Hawks made a spectacular entrance in the good old days of air shows. Rockcliffe airbase is situated between the Ottawa River and a small cliff. The Hawks came over the cliff at low level individually unannounced. No sooner had roar of the first one subsided, the next Hawk came over the cliff until all 7 had done so.
Not only did the team perform the loops, rolls and other maneuvers standard to military formation flying, they had their own trademark maneuvers. One of the Golden Hawks' signature stunts was a low-level flyby of the crowd with their canopies open, waving at the spectators. The Golden Hawks pioneered the bomb burst maneuver and the use of two solo pilots working together as part of the aerial demonstration which virtually every military team since has adopted in various ways.link to Micheal Potter's 'Vintage Wings of Canada',
http://www.vintagewings.ca/
