JP5's up for sale Nine of them!
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Nice little runabouts and quite easy to keep. My last JP flight was through the Rocky Mountains - in one of the jets sold to private owners in the US.
500 ft MSD only applies if there are any persons, vessels, vehicles or structures; and in the Rockies, there aren't
500 ft MSD only applies if there are any persons, vessels, vehicles or structures; and in the Rockies, there aren't
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
Buy them back in, I am sure a unit at Scampton could put them to good use.
I do hope there are some left at that nice RAF training base with the museum attached. Annual camp there for some local cadets this year, was hoping to get them a "trip" in a JP.
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Brokenlink:- already too late for that one I am afraid. All taxi aircraft are Jaguar nowadays and the JP have not been started in over a year. All JP are set aside for disposal.
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Are not the ones for sale those that you refer to?
The ad says "IDEAL POTENTIAL RETURN TO FLIGHT AIRCRAFT HAVING BEEN USED FOR INSTRUCTIONAL GROUND TAXI USE FOR THE TRAINING OF GROUND CREW. LAST FLOWN IN THE EARLY NINETIES BUT HAVE BEEN REGULARLY GROUND RUN, PROFESSIONALLY MAINTAINED, DRY STORED/SERVICED FOR GROUND TAXI USE UP UNTIL LAST YEAR."
Are not the ones for sale those that you refer to?
The ad says "IDEAL POTENTIAL RETURN TO FLIGHT AIRCRAFT HAVING BEEN USED FOR INSTRUCTIONAL GROUND TAXI USE FOR THE TRAINING OF GROUND CREW. LAST FLOWN IN THE EARLY NINETIES BUT HAVE BEEN REGULARLY GROUND RUN, PROFESSIONALLY MAINTAINED, DRY STORED/SERVICED FOR GROUND TAXI USE UP UNTIL LAST YEAR."
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You could always whip out the Vipers and build a new generation of MRD's (we probably only need nine these days 
)... an ideal project for those thrusting young engineers at Cosford.
)... an ideal project for those thrusting young engineers at Cosford.
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Seat cartridges etc
Hmmm. Well assuming the enthusiastic engineers have not buggered, over temped the engines while starting them up and taxiing etc there is the small but expensive issue of replacing the MB cartridges in both seats.... Oh and ensuring there is a parachute in the brown bag and not a collection of rags...Oh and installing the seat properly with the top latch engaged otherwise someone might fall out the plane again while doing loopy loops....
A good aircraft if run by a decent group with sensible engineers.
A good aircraft if run by a decent group with sensible engineers.
Never flew the 5 - been told that the pressurisation bleed reduces the power to about that of the 3
The JP5 had a simple, effective and reliable pressurisation system and flew very nicely indeed with the extra oomph.
"Never flew the 5 - been told that the pressurisation bleed reduces the power to about that of the 3"
Not so. The Mk3 had a viper 101 series engine rated at 1650lbs (IIRC) and the Mk 5 had a Viper 201 series engine rated at 2450lbs (again IIRC). The Mk5 was a rocket ship compared with the athsmatic Mk3. Perhaps you are thinking of the Mk4 which also had the 201 and no pressurisation. I often heard the Mk4 was a better performer than the Mk5, but chaps who had flown both said it was impossible to detect any difference in performance.
Not so. The Mk3 had a viper 101 series engine rated at 1650lbs (IIRC) and the Mk 5 had a Viper 201 series engine rated at 2450lbs (again IIRC). The Mk5 was a rocket ship compared with the athsmatic Mk3. Perhaps you are thinking of the Mk4 which also had the 201 and no pressurisation. I often heard the Mk4 was a better performer than the Mk5, but chaps who had flown both said it was impossible to detect any difference in performance.
As a nav holding awaiting the NBS course I was lucky enough to get a four week low level nav course at Linton. My first trip was in JP T5 XW300, which was almost brand new with only "delivery mileage" in the book. Great fun, my pilot Al Colesky thought I ought to learn to fly, and his version of ab initio training went - lesson one - the loop (no boring straight and level or gentle turns). With the JP5's ample power even I found I could do a pretty respectable loop with only a little nudging from Al
The aircraft didnt last long as it was written off in a fatal mid-air collision with a Sea Prince less than a year later.
The aircraft didnt last long as it was written off in a fatal mid-air collision with a Sea Prince less than a year later.
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May I be the first to say that the JP was perhaps the finest example of the constant thrust, variable noise aircraft