Film Footage of a spinning Jag'.
' Morning All,
It's just possible someone on here can stop me from going mad!!
When I was a teenager (early-mid 1980's) my best mate's Dad worked in ATC at a certain British military aircraft production factory on the Lancashire coast.
He used to bring the occasional video home from the factory library. For those here it was such as the BAC/MBB JP233 promo footage, Off-roading Jag' at Farnborough/ On-Off M55 motorway footage, Lightning, TSR2 stuff, some really excellent videos of stuff that transfixed us every time we heard an overhead roar or scream.
Since then, with the advent of the Internet I have been able to watch, courtesy of YouTube, a lot of these videos, all except one in particular
The video I'd like to see again was of a Prototype Jaguar, IIRC, that was conducting Spinning Trials, somewhere over NW England, tumbling out of the sky like confetti, fuel vapour flowing the wrong way through the engines, dramatic music, hairs up on the back of the neck, exciting stuff!
The Test Pilot was ordered to eject if he couldn't recover the aircraft by either a pre-determined altitude or number of rotations, IIRC, as we were told by my mate's Dad. But the plucky bugger stayed with it & aircraft & pilot tumbled out of the spin, recovered at a low-ish altitude & RTB'd, all the while with a camera man from the Film Unit whirring his 8mm Cine' or so it seemed & the rescue Whirlwind getting in shot too.
It was brilliant footage, never since seen. Does anybody out there know where I may be able to see it or better still post it on here??
Many many thanks in advance.
Kindest regards
D-O!