Results from a number of GDR experiments aiming at the investigation of hot nuclear shapes in two very different mass regions and performed with the HECTOR array are presented. For A=46 Jacobi shapes at high angular momenta were observed. For A=216 indications of large deformations at angular momenta close to the fission limit were found.

PACS numbers: 21.10.Re, 24.30.Cz, 25.70.Gh