the hawker hunter is a fighter jet developed by hawker aircraft for the raf during the NUMBER_TOKENs initially introduced as an interceptor aircraft intended to defend against attacking bombers the hunter moved to a ground attack role in later years noted for its exceptional performance it saw combat service in a range of conflicts such as the suez crisis the six day war the rhodesian bush war and more it's safe to say then that you probably wouldn't want one of your pilots to go rogue and fly this thing into the capital city unauthorized but in NUMBER_TOKEN in london that's exactly what happened flight lieutenant alan pollock was born in NUMBER_TOKEN and had grown up in awe of britain's royal air force and the pilots who fought in world war ii it was only natural then that he himself became an raf pilot and an exceptional one at that being a flight commander in the raf's number one squadron however by the NUMBER_TOKENs the raf was experiencing somewhat of a decline from its former glory days pollock was a vocal critic of the raf's fighting effectiveness and blamed the government for defense cuts and a general apathy towards the nation's air force april NUMBER_TOKEN marked the NUMBER_TOKENth anniversary of the founding of the raf and pollock was disappointed there wasn't much planned in the way of celebration there wasn't even going to be an aerial display a lot of people even within the raf didn't even know the NUMBER_TOKENth anniversary was occurring which seems a bit of a shame given the raf's illustrious history and so alan pollock decided if the government wasn't going to celebrate the anniversary he would just have to do it himself with an act of protest against them on the NUMBER_TOKENth of april NUMBER_TOKEN members of number one squadron including pollock were returning to raf west raynham from raf tangmir after attending a dinner at the base it was during this return pollock planned to act hopping in as hawker hunter pollock took off with four others though he would need to lose them to carry out his plan he gradually broke off from the other jets before flying low so that his camouflage would hide him against the countryside he used speechless code to transmit a message to the formation leader claiming he had lost visual contact and his radio had malfunctioned he then made his way to london on his journey he came across dunsfold aerodrome the site hawker aircraft used for developing the hunter after keeping an eye out for any other air traffic pollux swooped low over the airfields to pay them a brief anniversary visit not long after pollock was following the river thames and arrived in london around noon the weather was beautiful and pollock enjoyed the view as he flew in low soon he spied his main target the houses of parliament up to now pollock had kept his speed and thereby his noise low to avoid disrupting london citizens but now he had decided to open up the throttle and let the government know they still had a fighting air force pollock circled the houses of parliament three times interrupting a debate as the noise of the craft rattled
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