I’m just amazed how well the Jag scrubbed up……:rolleyes:

Jags seats had a baro set on them for 10,000ft (15,000 in Germany due to the alps) before separation and Oxy was provided to ride the seat down to that level before the chute deploying, below that it would separate normally….. Had one where the gauge was just hovering on the lower side of the fill indicator line I.e on the line which was acceptable, but the bottom part of the said line, pilot queried it and was happy when I said surely a grown man like you can hold your breath for a minute :p

Yep – and if you ever charged one for the USN they’d jump up and down and say stop as soon as you reached just above that lower line ! Miow….:p

Insane – but go for it :diablo:

Hey – just noticed – this is my 226th post and it’s about a Jaguar T Bird – spooky or what……… and if you don’t understand that was the OCU number.

Where abouts is it parked in relation to the museum ? Looking on Google, there don’t appear to be any, even overgrown, hardstandings that close.

The Mosquito element was nothing new really, but I did enjoy the programme. Strangely enough I was looking at the Tank Museum website on the restoration of the Tiger last week – oh, and memories of my Grandfather’s views on the Sten – ” couldn’t have hit a barn door from the other side of the street”

Looks to me like they are ‘feeling’ for something happening inside during the pre start proceedures.

Later you see some muck ( inhibiting oil ? ) beingblown out before actual start up, so maybe they are checking that air is reaching the starters or something.

That intake door looks more like dark green to me.

Regarding the stencilling, the outer screws were plain 10UNF threaded bolts, but the inner ones had a small screw portion on the end, then a length of thinner plain shank, then further threads, before the normal shank / head.

The idea of this was so if one came loose inside the intake, it would stop coming undone at the plain portion and not get ingested.

If you tried to use ‘normal’ bolts on the inside, it’s possible you could punch the anchor nut off the inside of the hinge plate – an awkward thing to fix and one that would involve your nasty Sergeant shouting at you 😉

Why the stenciling ? Could be a training bit, as suggested, or possibly just a Sqn preventitive measure – never saw one painted myself though in 22 yrs on Jags…….