Originally Posted by henry crun
Samuel: Not strictly correct to say it was non-aerobatic, but aeros in the looping plane were forbidden.
The reheat was for high altitude use only because at low level, where fuel demand was greatest, the reheat robbed the main engine of fuel which resulted in a small overall loss of thrust.
I am sure that may have been the case for the average Sqn Chap in what may have passed for its Release to Service. But, Darbouy vividly remembers, as a scaly quarters brat, at Leuchars in the late 50's, watching a Javelin performing a sequence of loops in the overhead
Also, after a rummage through Darbouys dear departed dad's memorabilia, the frontispiece from the 1957 Leuchars yearbook:
There must have been two of them doing it in the same piece of sky, together, to make the pic.
Then again, given the old girls dragmasterly qualities, they may only be throttled back at the top-of-drop
