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Four Types
9th Oct 2016, 14:57
Spotted this in the Air Museum in Krakow. Ex 6 Sqn Jag, then Cosford now Krakow. Just wondered if he is on here he may like to know!!
Background Noise
9th Oct 2016, 15:16
Ok - I'll bite - there may be a Jag there - but that isn't it.
Indeed - a Harrier GR3 by the looks of it
PDR
uffington sb
9th Oct 2016, 16:29
Polish Aviation Museum Cracow (http://www.muzeumlotnictwa.pl/zbiory_sz.php?ido=273&w=a)
We are clearly Poles apart from reality.
Poor call, OP. Acuraccy is imporrtant here.
It must be a [fairly] recent acquisition - I went to that museum in 2009 and it wasn't there then. It is (or was) a brilliant museum, and well worth finding the path around the back of the poly to get there. I could have spent a couple of days there, but had SWMBO & daughters with me so was restricted to 4 hours...
PDR
noprobs
9th Oct 2016, 19:38
Mark Bowman was an RAF Harrier pilot before he became a test pilot and went to work for BAE Systems.
Fonsini
9th Oct 2016, 19:46
I'm assuming it's this gentleman.
https://www.eurofighter.com/multimedia/details/bae-systems-test-pilot-mark-bowman-294
SASless
9th Oct 2016, 21:00
Ex 6 Sqn Jag, then Cosford now Krakow.
That would qualify as the longest ever takeoff roll for a Jag I should think.
Flap62
9th Oct 2016, 22:43
That would qualify as the longest ever takeoff roll for a Jag I should think.
SASless
Only just
Wensleydale
10th Oct 2016, 07:12
Surely, Jaguar was on the top of the F4 crews' recce list for a while?
Coochycool
10th Oct 2016, 11:43
He didn't get lost pre-1990, did he? :ooh:
Out Of Trim
10th Oct 2016, 13:31
Strange post by the OP. A former RAF pilot that can't recognise a Jaguar.. Oh My!:ouch:
Herod
10th Oct 2016, 14:13
He doesn't say he's former RAF, just that the aircraft was.
Underbolt
10th Oct 2016, 15:05
To be fair to him, he's only flown four types, so can't be expected to recognise all the others. ;)
NutLoose
10th Oct 2016, 15:50
Here is a "Jag" even further away..
This example of a British Harrier GR3 resides the museum of Beihang University in Beijing
http://aircraft-in-focus.com/wp-content/gallery/harrier-xz965/img_5619-800x.jpg
http://aircraft-in-focus.com/hawker-siddeley-harrier-and-sea-harrier/
Out Of Trim
10th Oct 2016, 15:59
I take it back; I think he was a Nav.. One type being the F-4. He wasn't the one in the Phantom that shot down the Jag in Germany was he?
Just banter chaps..
tartare
10th Oct 2016, 21:18
Poor Harrier.
POW. ;)
You mean Hallier in this case.....
matkat
11th Oct 2016, 07:33
The F4 Jag shoot down nav was a certain Flt Lt Inver****y
Nice chap Alistair, he was an ops officer at Leuchars with me for his next tour.........
TrevM
11th Oct 2016, 20:34
This is a photo of the Jag at Krakow which I took last year.