French lose the last ADA Jaguar during storm. BIG PICTURE
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French lose the last ADA Jaguar during storm. BIG PICTURE
Blimey!! double click on pic in link for full image, took it off here because of the size.
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It's strange, but, instantly, the story of the Greek Air Force Policeman and the F-16 pitot tube came to mind when I saw that photograph.
Notwithstanding the Jag being upside down.
Could this be the onset of Alkzeimer's?
Notwithstanding the Jag being upside down.
Could this be the onset of Alkzeimer's?
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Looks like a fairly classic case: Sprawled upside down, tied to a lamp-post and with a broken nose, very sore head and only dim recollection of what must have been an epic night. Presumably there's a dressed-up Jaguar and a big batch of Jaguar relatives waiting at a church somewhere.
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fingrinOk, it may be a cat, but they didn't have to tie it to the lamppost.
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Nah - I'm not buying it - the story, that is.
No visible scuffs in the turf; no marks whatsoever on the 'frame - not even mud/grass. The tyres look clean - not like they have been dragged sideways through the grass before flipping over. Even the canopy look completely intact. If it had been blown over and it landed on the canopy, surely it would have suffered? The pitot looks to be the sole casualty.
I reckon it is one of those trick or treat stunts - like turning someone's car round sideways between two buildings so it's impossible to drive out. Only more difficult...
No visible scuffs in the turf; no marks whatsoever on the 'frame - not even mud/grass. The tyres look clean - not like they have been dragged sideways through the grass before flipping over. Even the canopy look completely intact. If it had been blown over and it landed on the canopy, surely it would have suffered? The pitot looks to be the sole casualty.
I reckon it is one of those trick or treat stunts - like turning someone's car round sideways between two buildings so it's impossible to drive out. Only more difficult...
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New for the Beaufort scale ?
The wind that day at Toulouse/Blagnac reached 87 kts - at Bordeaux earlier they had 94 kts and later at Perpignan 103 kts. Locally they call it "the 10-year storm".
The Jaguar seems to have actually been "airborne" and done a half-roll before ending up where it did, because it was usually on a hard-standing.
Years ago there used also to be a Vautour doing gate-guardian duty, but it's a long time since I passed that way (to eat at Le Cantou, over which you could/can "count the rivets" as aircraft landed - almost "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" : some people's universe anyway).
These are/were appropriate gate-guards, as the Vautour was a SNCASO (South-West Aircraft and therefore local) product, while the Jaguar was the last Breguet product, built at Toulouse before being absorbed by the dreaded Dassault (shades of Bristol and RR?). The old Jaguar line building now houses A320-series products, so isn't lying idle.
Hope they get the Jag back on its boots (and tie it down securely before the next "ten-year storm), if they haven't already done so.
The Jaguar seems to have actually been "airborne" and done a half-roll before ending up where it did, because it was usually on a hard-standing.
Years ago there used also to be a Vautour doing gate-guardian duty, but it's a long time since I passed that way (to eat at Le Cantou, over which you could/can "count the rivets" as aircraft landed - almost "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" : some people's universe anyway).
These are/were appropriate gate-guards, as the Vautour was a SNCASO (South-West Aircraft and therefore local) product, while the Jaguar was the last Breguet product, built at Toulouse before being absorbed by the dreaded Dassault (shades of Bristol and RR?). The old Jaguar line building now houses A320-series products, so isn't lying idle.
Hope they get the Jag back on its boots (and tie it down securely before the next "ten-year storm), if they haven't already done so.
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Greek AF policeman
IIRC,it was Mirage F.1s being delivered to the Iraqi Air Force transiting Kalamata in Greece in the early eighties,and this caused a diplomatic incident as Iraq receiving Mirages at the time was not meant to be public knowlege.
Red faces all round and a spell in the punishment block for the Greek Air Force guard no doubt ensued as a result of this.
Red faces all round and a spell in the punishment block for the Greek Air Force guard no doubt ensued as a result of this.
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Possibly the only time a Jag took off without relying on the curvature of the earth!
