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Old 2nd Mar 2010, 11:52
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Jackonicko
 
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Re XZ118.



It's testicles, not testicle.

Her regular Gulf War pilot was Flt Lt 'Frog' (real name long forgotten, Phil? Pete? Paul?) Tholen (surname quite possibly misspelt), possibly shared with Steve Thomas (who was the chap shot down by the RAFG Phantom, IIRC).

She was the subject of the gatefold centrespread in World Air Power Journal No.11 which may give more detail on her Gulf War service.

She is MOST unlikely to have stayed her whole life with 41 - Jag's move around, though the recce ones less so. I have a dim recollection that she was with II (AC) out in Germany, though.

Her individual record card will be held by AHB or the National Archive, and it would detail all her moves, mods and changes of ownership.

She was one of the Granby jets (one of the second batch of 5, arrived in theatre on 2.11.90), of course, but was also one of the initial 12 Jags flown to Gioia del Colle on 12 July 1993 as part of a NATO force made available to support UN operations in the former Yugoslavia.

She was later one of the four that flew to Turkey in September 1998 to relieve Tornado GR.1s on Operation Warden (as a J96R).

By the time of the Gulf War she was a recce capable GR1A (FIN 1064, not NAVWASS, and Adour 104s), she subsequently became a J96 Recce (GR3) and finally a J97 (GR3A).
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