I live in the states I am a 40 year old commercial pilot with 6000 hours in jets and looking at buying a JP Mk4 I have found one the XR701 which I beleive was a former Macaw. My partner and I are looking to buy this and bring it back to life as a tribute as it were to the Macaws and other RAF aerial teams. I see several former RAF pilots and team pilots post here and would love to hear from them. I would like to see if they remember the routines, manuvers and real crowd pleasers as I too will try to fly the same show…solo of course. Although I am 10+ years younger than the plane I don’t know if its my Scotish heritage or what but I don’t have so much fun flying for the airlines as much as I do listening to the old timers who really got me interested in flying all those years ago. Maybe doing a few shows will allow me to meet all the guys like you who I admire so much as pilots and my inspiration. Some great photos would be excellent. I also have questions about the repainting.
Cheers
Mark (Scottish as heart)
By: lauriebe - 23rd September 2007 at 08:43
Why not start here?
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=55120&highlight=Rare+Macaws+JP+Picture.Munich+1971
By: stringbag - 19th September 2007 at 21:28
I’ll see what I can find out for you 🙂
Mark
(Jet Provost heaven)
http://www.jetprovostheaven.com/
By: Firebird - 19th September 2007 at 19:50
I live in the states I am a 40 year old commercial pilot with 6000 hours in jets and looking at buying a JP Mk4 I have found one the XR701 which I beleive was a former Macaw. My partner and I are looking to buy this and bring it back to life as a tribute as it were to the Macaws and other RAF aerial teams. I see several former RAF pilots and team pilots post here and would love to hear from them. I would like to see if they remember the routines, manuvers and real crowd pleasers as I too will try to fly the same show…solo of course.
It would be worth posting this over on the pprune forum, as that’s where a lot of ex and current RAF pilots post, so someone will bound to be able to give you some usefull info.
By: pagen01 - 19th September 2007 at 19:44
Welcome, well done, and good luck!:)
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September 19, 2007 at 7:40 pm