JagRigger

Some of the patterns were more an overall disruptive pattern and didn't follow the colour demarcation lines

And not sure of the year: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10227126290395893&set=g.4644973394 edit - looks like mid 70's, but as she ended up on the gate I assume she saw her time out there through 79

RAFDEC have a yellow 84 Sqn one from 1979: http://tedtaylor.hobbyvista.com/126-rafdec/page-1/page-rf1-7210-7211.html

I remember her at Abingdon

Interesting effect with the sunlight through a roller blind - it’s the green scheme really

https://www.aviationclassics.co.uk/black-buck/

Another one I've long thought they should do is a new sprue to build Belfast as she was post war / is now. Again, would be a 'way in' for potental new modellers

Like a tired old record, I'll say again - Airfix, please kit the aircraft cadets fly in. Tutor and Viking. Get the young 'uns interested . Offer a varied marking sheet so they can build 'their' aircraft

There were several other mods done at around the same time, so yes AN/ALE 40 but also the old domed red anti coll lights were replaced by the inverted V high intensity strobes. Also ( come on Bob ) the seats should have gone from 9B2 to 9B3 ( bigger headbox ) and possibly the 1148 tailcone mod where the drop down type replaced the noddy cap By the time I joined in 85, most were 1A's, but I was on the mods team that did the last upgrade at Abingdon where they added one after 'the line' had closed, and it got all those mentioned ( XZ381 )

So that's where the Jag got the idea......

Pylon trailing edge is pointed rather than flat, need single wheel rear legs, possible blade re-profiling

I must not weaken and go 1/48 th, I must not w...... 😉

Tyre bay, hyd bay, tank bay - first tour 85-88 Colt............ but at least then we got to go on dets with the Sqns !

Only 3 months in a tyre bay 😉

It looks to me in a lot of the pictures as if there is some kind of cooling fan fitted to the hub, which is a dark colour, and absent in the link to the photo I posted

Hmmm https://www.airhistory.net/photo/446698/XV568

https://www.tornadosig.com/fuel-tanks.html I did spend time in the Jaguar tank bay, and these look very similar. 3 sections - front and rear bolted in a ring to the centre. - the 'holes' every other bolt on the centre are where you'd fit clamps when installing the nose / tail. The difference seems to be the two sets of bolts on the centre section - these seem to retian the bulkheads ( whereas 'ours' were a moulded in / permanent fit ) So - raised bolts, recessed joins between sections, and recessed manual filler pointrs in all 3 sections

Wraparound : https://archive.aeroscale.net/features/7361/

I like that Funnily enough, Fritag, I was looking at the nozzle settings, but you'd need to be in the know for that one

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Looks like a new slat has been fitted and just not painted yet. You wouldn’t see any internal paint

Yes, they’re interconnected

Looking at this again, I'd at first assumed it was the retaining ring for the glass, but I think it's just with the angle it's taken and the way the light is set back on its brackets, you can see the background. The RBF flag stops you getting a decent perspective as it hides the other side