I agree with Paddy Dickson, in that I think this thread was started for commercial gain, trying to get bad press for the Adour. Personally I was told about this link from my friend in India and I posted on pprune for the first time in several years. As I said, I am a Brit, I am patriotic so I would like to see RR win the contract (anything wrong with that???). My link to RR is sometimes having 2 of their engines under my wings keeping me and 200 odd pax airbourne aslong as the ice doesn't form on short finals at LHR!

Adour 106 engines still out there!
 

The 106 engines have not been recycled as of yet as i have 14 off them at the moment along with all the module spares. I would be interested in getting a IPC for the 106 and the 104 if anyone know where to obtain this.

Funnily enough, I may have actually photographed the MK821 being installed in the Spotty Jag at Cosford for the trials......

http://www.skonk.net/main.php?g2_vie...serialNumber=1

Adour Mk106 engines
 

The Adour Mk106 engines removed have only 378hr to 534hrs on them.

Re Nutloose's pic-
I can see the engine on the bench behind the "tiger"jag but have just one question-
How did they manage to hide that big propellor in that sleek, slim airframe?:)

Jim - they didn't. The propellor was on the ground at the end of the runway and it blew the jag into the air (or at least far enough down the runway till the curvature of the earth kicked in):eek:

Jags, a perfect clean fit display jet, powered by three apu's and a prayer.

Slightly off thread but this was an interesting strip..... getting the LP turbine out was done by brute force. Bet it was an interesting few minutes at the pointy end when this let go !

102/104, 4 I think, 431MU Bruggen, 81/82. Anyone remember this ?

HH2

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Don't remember it, but defo the rear bypass duct.. Good thing items went downwards or outboard. Yeah, putting fuel tanks next to engines isn't the greatest idea, but the British didn't have a great track record of putting hot things next to tanks that needed to be keep fairly cool.. Harrier had a fuel tank above the engine too! It was called the wing. Bucaneer BLC cross feed duct through the F 3 tank? List is endless. 106 was certainly better than the 104, especially in Echo Gutless if pilots remarks were recalled correctly. However it certainly didn't like being uprated in certain settings prior to the demise of the fleet.. Pop surge city. :{

BTW I have been researching the development of the afterburning Adour for a project, had have got hold of the Jaguar files available from the National Archives.. Interesting reading on all the development issues with the afterburner, PTR requirement, Flame tube coking,HP compressor drum failures, reheat buzz, low RPM surging... All the problems associated with sticking a burner on a little turbofan for the first time. Spey had similar problems one is lead to believe. And all of this in a collabrative project with design, production and test centres hundreds of miles apart in countries speaking different languages. It didn't help that Rolls Royce went bust inbetween! It didn't help Rolls Royce either that the trainer the engines originally were designed for, slowly wasn't a trainer anymore, but airframes carrying out most of the roles the trainer was designed to be training crew up to, plus a large percentage in increased basic mass and stores carriage weight..:E

Is that bypass casing due to a failure or the one were the weld let go around one of the bleeds resulting in a jet of flame normally into the F4 tank... Still have memories of having to walk round the HAS's to boroscope the fleet on the Squadron every night..