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Old 24th Mar 2012, 05:56
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nazca_steve
 
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Dalek, you wrote earlier:

"Quite a few T19 sorties. B2 with pointed concreted nose and no tip tanks.
No navaids either other than TACAN.
We tended to use the T19 for PI's and any sortie that required climb above 410. Pressurisation limitations limited ceiling to 470 but with a light aircraft we once took one to 520. We still had a reasonable rate of climb but MCrit and safety speed considerations made us chicken out.
Never heard of a T11 "


Having TACAN at least was an advance over the early B.2s and other variants...off the top of my head I think these may have only have had ADF at the time. With TACAN fitted did you bother with ADF at all or just go with the former nav aid?

Ref the T.11, this was the former version of the T.19, except it has the AI radar in the nose cone and not the concrete version! I believe this was a variant design to train Javelin crews in AI, later on when this was no longer needed the redundant T.11s had the radar removed and became your variant. I asked Options770 in an email if he remembered if the gun sights were still fitted in the 19 or not...do you remember by chance?
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