Jaguar question

[NutLoose]

Krystal I watched a Cessna doing retracts lift itself off the jacks as the gear hit the ground during the retraction then settle back on the jack pads after the gear then lifted clear of the ground again

[Cat Techie]

Removed engines would make it almost two tonnes lighter in the back. I think it is a training exercise for recovery, purely that.

Seen a Jaguar bounce on a jack, Didn't stay on the jack either.

One has to jack a Jaguar rather high to do undercarriage retractions / gear swings! I'll get my coat.

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[spitfirek5054]

It was the same on the Belfast,had to jack it up to about 5 feet to do undercarriage retractions.

[Cat Techie]

Originally Posted by spitfirek5054

It was the same on the Belfast,had to jack it up to about 5 feet to do undercarriage retractions.

Now you are showing your age. I was 10 when the things were retired. The jag OP picutre was taken when I was on T24 at AFTS , RAF Halton. 18 years old. I still maintain aeroplanes, well Civvy ones.

[NutLoose]

Same height nearly as a Cessna because the gawd awful mains used to fold in from the sides underneath, rotate the fold up into the rear of the fuselage

[GGR155]

Could be gate guardian installation

[spitfirek5054]

Originally Posted by Cat Techie

Now you are showing your age. I was 10 when the things were retired. The jag OP picutre was taken when I was on T24 at AFTS , RAF Halton. 18 years old. I still maintain aeroplanes, well Civvy ones.

Posted onto Belfasts 1972,at RAF Abingdon,as a young LAC,18yr old,straight out my Airframe Mechs course at Saint Athan.
Still involved in aviation working for KLM at Schiphol on CF 6 engines,retirement this year in October aged 66 and 8 months.

[Cat Techie]

Originally Posted by spitfirek5054

Posted onto Belfasts 1972,at RAF Abingdon,as a young LAC,18yr old,straight out my Airframe Mechs course at Saint Athan.
Still involved in aviation working for KLM at Schiphol on CF 6 engines,retirement this year in October aged 66 and 8 months.

Nice one mate. NWI but not for much longer seeing Logan are pulling the plug. LAE though so other jobs are about.

[Compass Call]

Started my aviation career when I was 20 after I finished an engineering apprenticeship.
I stopped working on aircraft when the last flying Sea Vixen was given to the Navy, now I work building AAR pods - 70 and no sign of retirement!!

[oldmansquipper]

In the 80s whilst on my second tour at Laughing Laarbruch, the station had just won an RAFG award for Engineering Excellence (the something trophy?) when the ASF guys got a post maintenance fuelling sequence a bit wrong and a Jag was seen to sit down on its a*se outside the big hangar. (Not as dramatic as watching a Vulcan do it but pretty amusing nonetheless) The stn photog Who had his section just a few feet away spotted the calamity and took loads of pictures...

Allegedly, and possibly to prevent embarrassment, all the pictures were destroyed on orders from the local engineering hierarchy....

Could the picture be post that incident?

[Pontius Navigator]

Not as dramatic as watching a Vulcan do it

The one I saw at Akrotiri as we taxied passed had the crew chief desperately hanging on the the towing arm. He saw the aircraft start to go and went for the towing arm. Futile as the fuel was still going in.

[oldmansquipper]

Originally Posted by Pontius Navigator

The one I saw at Akrotiri as we taxied passed had the crew chief desperately hanging on the the towing arm. He saw the aircraft start to go and went for the towing arm. Futile as the fuel was still going in.

PN I didn’t see the AKR one, mine was at Waddo. However, I was (partially) responsible for providing ground crew entertainment at AKR when an Argosy wing stowed life raft we were fitting decided it wanted to get out! I can assure everyone that once it starts coming out, you can’t stuff it back in, as my supervising Cpl discovered to his embarrassment when he tried.

oh how they (LXX Sqn groundcrew) laughed!

[NutLoose]

Originally Posted by oldmansquipper

In the 80s whilst on my second tour at Laughing Laarbruch, the station had just won an RAFG award for Engineering Excellence (the something trophy?) when the ASF guys got a post maintenance fuelling sequence a bit wrong and a Jag was seen to sit down on its a*se outside the big hangar. (Not as dramatic as watching a Vulcan do it but pretty amusing nonetheless) The stn photog Who had his section just a few feet away spotted the calamity and took loads of pictures...

Allegedly, and possibly to prevent embarrassment, all the pictures were destroyed on orders from the local engineering hierarchy....

Could the picture be post that incident?

Ahh the mighty Jag, Michael "Tarzan" Hestletine Mp descended on us at Bruggen for a visit, Contractors came in shotblasted the HAS internally and the floor to remove the years of crud, it was repainted and sparkled like new.. Jags were prepped and put inside.. Spotless, bombs and belts of ammo laid out in Sqn numbers, the scene was set...................... then i was told to go out literally hours before his visit and refuel the rear jet, I requested it out as it was a known venter, promptly refused due to all the ammo set up etc, so in I went, in went the fuel and out came a lot of it........ the HAS was a literal swimming pool... Bags of chicken **** were scattered far and wide and attempts made to recover the prisitine HAS state, result, Hestletine visited a HAS with a dirty great dusty stain on the floor, smelling of fuel and crunchy underfoot Of course it was all my fault!

[Cat Techie]

Later days saw a drain tube and 2o5 litre drum on a sack barrel stuck on the donkeys dick to stop such botherations.