RAF Jetstream article in recent magazine
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RAF Jetstream article in recent magazine
AEROPLANE monthly has recently run an article on the Jetstream in RAF service. Can anyone tell me which edition please, as I want to order a back issue. It is not in Jan 24 issue. Many thanks.
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Ah, the Jetstream… an execrable aircraft in my opinion, unpleasant handling, appallingly noisy, I couldn’t wait to finish my training on it. Then I suppose it didn’t help going to it from the Tucano/ Hawk as it was always going to suffer by comparison.
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Ah, the Jetstream… an execrable aircraft in my opinion, unpleasant handling, appallingly noisy....
Fortunately I only did a short MER course on the wretched thing and escaped the clutches of 6FTS as soon as I possibly could!
SCOPS failure on the no.2 engine had us spending a pleasant weekend at CFB Lahr instead of RAF Gatow, but that was the only high point of the MER course.... A new switch was sent out to us, fitted on Monday morning by the crew chief and back we went to RAF Finningley.
ETPS actually assessed the C-130 as being "An excellent lead-in trainer for the Jetstream", I once heard!
ETPS actually assessed the C-130 as being "An excellent lead-in trainer for the Jetstream", I once heard!
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The RN's Jetstream T.3 cock-up was a precursor to one of MoD's more entertaining episodes. The new ASR360 cloud and clunk radar was to be retro-fitted to the T.2, and then Hercules, VC10 and Nimrod AEW. When it was found not to work, and the T.3s became Admirals' Barges, in sheer frustration a senior RAF officer, visiting Emerson Radar, looked at their excellent colour/digital radar and said 'I want that'. The company launched production, while the VSO was quietly told upon his return to Blighty that he'd let a contract. It was cancelled.
Bit of a comedown after the JP5 and the Hawk but it served its purpose. Only real memories I have are the myriad buttons on the overhead panel, a lovely weekend at Gatow and a trip though Check Point Charlie to the East and the reign of terror instigated by the NavSchool staff towards their students who were kept at arms length by all those on METS.
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