Mizzy Posted June 2, 2007 Posted June 2, 2007 Its goodbye to an all time favorite aircraft of mine :( http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=273270 Hopefully they will still appear at airshows! Mizzy
355th_Paulie Posted June 2, 2007 Posted June 2, 2007 Quite an abrupt ending to an extrodanary aircraft....:mad: :D
Cosmonaut Posted June 2, 2007 Posted June 2, 2007 :( Any Aircraft that carries A2A weapons on the top of its wings has got to be cool .. 1 Cozmo. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Minimum effort, maximum satisfaction. CDDS Tutorial Version 3. | Main Screen Mods.
thesystem Posted June 2, 2007 Posted June 2, 2007 The jag should be in lomac..... Fast A2g...now we only have slow...:( Yeahyeah, a2g at the mig-28 and su but not what i mean:smilewink: DCS World, A10C, AV8B, M2k, FA18C, FC3, MIG21
Force_Feedback Posted June 2, 2007 Posted June 2, 2007 India still flies it, it will even upgrade those things. Creedence Clearwater Revival:worthy:
VapoR Posted June 2, 2007 Posted June 2, 2007 NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! :cry: I going to be wearing black in mourning today . . . Only good thing that might come out of this is maybe they will unclassify the manuals and stuff, then we might be able to see one done properly in a sim.
504MrWolf Posted June 2, 2007 Posted June 2, 2007 They sent all the flyable airframes up for one big fly around all the old Jag bases in the UK on that day! I think 12 or 14 Jag's blasted out of RAF Conningsby and flew in a tight formation round the country, i saw them fly over my head as i walked to town it was an amazing sight and very noisey!! www.VVS504.co.uk www.lockonskins.co.uk
EscCtrl Posted June 2, 2007 Posted June 2, 2007 If live in the UK my guess is you'll still see at least one or two at the major airshows, e.g. fairford. They always have loads there.
jonob66 Posted June 2, 2007 Posted June 2, 2007 Sorry to disappoint but all RAF Jags will be grounded so no airshow etc. Its a shame but its an old AC and its role will be taken over (eventually) by the Typhoon. I'm sad at its retirement. As a kid I love watching them screem down the valleys at low level in the Highlands of Scotland. :noexpression: [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
EscCtrl Posted June 2, 2007 Posted June 2, 2007 Sorry to disappoint but all RAF Jags will be grounded so no airshow etc. Its a shame but its an old AC and its role will be taken over (eventually) by the Typhoon. I'm sad at its retirement. As a kid I love watching them screem down the valleys at low level in the Highlands of Scotland. :noexpression: Yeah but I'm sure a museum such as Duxford will aquire one and if we're lucky someone there could maintain it for airshows?
yamangman Posted June 2, 2007 Posted June 2, 2007 You don't see very many privately owned after burning jet fighters, not to mention Duxford has at least 2 Jaguars already.
jonob66 Posted June 2, 2007 Posted June 2, 2007 Yeah but I'm sure a museum such as Duxford will aquire one and if we're lucky someone there could maintain it for airshows? Sorry but private AC need CAA approval and they have never allowed an jet with an afterbruner to be flown in UK airspace let alone an airshow. The b***ers! :mad: [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
Force_Feedback Posted June 2, 2007 Posted June 2, 2007 Maybe sometime when supercruising jets become obsolete, but that's 80 years down the line, little chance any of us will see it happen :( Creedence Clearwater Revival:worthy:
504MrWolf Posted June 2, 2007 Posted June 2, 2007 Yeah but I'm sure a museum such as Duxford will aquire one and if we're lucky someone there could maintain it for airshows? Duxford already have one :D www.VVS504.co.uk www.lockonskins.co.uk
britgliderpilot Posted June 3, 2007 Posted June 3, 2007 Duxford already have one :D Whoa! That's in the new Airspace hangar, right? Last time I was at Duxford was for Flying Legends last summer, they hadn't opened Airspace then . . . . it'll be open this time, looking forward to it. Flying Legends is the one weekend of the year for me that is reserved for nothing else :P For all those who aren't yet aware, btw . . . Duxford's big Flying Legends weekend, chock-full of warbirds (last year the highlight was a twelve-Spitfire-scramble) . . . . is run by The Fighter Collection. The same Fighter Collection who are responsible for Eagle Dynamics in the western world ;) If there's any chance at all of anyone making it to Duxford on the 7th/8th July this year, do it. The sight (and sound) of twelve Spitfires scrambling is like nothing else you'll ever see in this world, and MUST be experienced . . . . http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v121/britgliderpilot/BS2Britgliderpilot-1.jpg
Brit_Radar_Dude Posted June 3, 2007 Posted June 3, 2007 :( Happy memories of hill walking and seeing Jags flying along the valley below me..... [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Sorry Death, you lose! It was Professor Plum....
Ramstein Posted June 3, 2007 Posted June 3, 2007 While in the USAF in Germany I worked around lots and lots of Jaguars, it was close to the time of Falklands war. Lots of Harriers were there too, they did lots of trick flying for us, showing off... it was almost a comedy routine, they would use the thrusters to put the planes in comical like manuevers to talk, like saying yes and no, and to use the nose to move up/down/right/left while hovering above us.. The Jags had lots of hardpoints to carry weapons but were very very skinny. The F-111's carry a huge amount of fuel and the bomb bay is pretty damned big.. working around a Nato base I was exposed to many, many, many aircraft.. Just a few notes on what was often there on the flight line. Many A-10's were there too... the First F16's went to Isreals back then.. F-4 Phantoms always used cables to catch to slow them down with hot-brakes.. they were/aare fuel hogs... but carry tons of weapons. Air Shows were common every eyar back then. I got to help prep a Spitfire, that was fun. Oh well,, enough jabbering.. :doh: ASUS Strix Z790-H, i9-13900, WartHog HOTAS and MFG Crosswind G.Skill 64 GB Ram, 2TB SSD EVGA Nvidia RTX 2080-TI (trying to hang on for a bit longer) 55" Sony OLED TV, Oculus VR
Andrew_McP Posted June 3, 2007 Posted June 3, 2007 No Jag at Biggin Hill yesterday, and that has to be a first. No Harriers either, which is *definitely* a first... they're too busy out in real world operations at the moment apparently. A sad sign of the times. The Jaguar is a really nice aircraft though. Plenty of character in its design. I'll miss it. Andrew McP
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