Originally Posted by
BEagle
We also had a Jag v. Jag drag race at RAF Abingdon.
Guess which won?
I'm going to stick my neck out and say the aircraft. At least the Jag could hold max reheat on the brakes and the Abingdon Jags were always clean, i.e. no tanks, no pylons. I once saw a display Jag (Clean and partial fuel) take off from Abingdon's short runway using only about half of it.