Merci à vous Ceramix et Kamov.ceramix a écrit :salut, belles images !
une question : qu'est-ce que c'est les ronds sur l'aile supérieure droite du Tiger Moth?
Merci KamovKamov a écrit :Merci pour tes photos! Tu as une veine extraordinaire de pouvoir visiter tous ces musées
335th_Aymi a écrit :Rodolphe, as tu d'autres photos du Avon? Merciiii
Voici Aymi, les images demandées.335th_Aymi a écrit :Rodolphe, as tu d'autres photos du Avon? Merciiii
...XN776 first flew as an F.2 on 18th October 1962 and was delivered on the 13th February 1963 to 19 Squadron with whom it served until
the 14th January 1969 when XN776 was dispatched to BAC Warton for modification to F.2A standard.
On the 13th August 1969 XN776 returned to active service again with19 Squadron.
XN776 is displayed in the colours of 92 Squadron, based at RAF Gutersloh, West Germany with whom it served until its last operational flight on 3rd March 1977.
Struck off Charge on the 1st April 1977 XN776 was transferred to RAF Leuchars on the 5th April 1977 for decoy duties
before final retirement to the Scottish Museum of Flight on the 8th April 1982.
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Black Buck Five
This mission, flown by Squadron Leader Neil McDougall and his crew from 50 Squadron in XM597, on 31 May, was the first successful anti-radar mission equipped with AGM-45A Shrike missiles.
The main target was a Westinghouse AN/TPS-43 long range 3D radar that the Argentine Air Force deployed during April to guard the airspace surrounding the Falklands.
In order for the missiles to work the targeted radar had to transmit up until the missiles impacted.
The first missile impacted 10 metres away from the target, causing minor blast damage to the wave-guide assembly, but not disabling the radar.Fearing further attack,
the Argentine operators used the simple counter-measure of turning their radar off preventing further damage.
The AN/TPS-43 radar remained operational during the rest of the conflict.
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Black Buck Six
This mission, again flown by Squadron Leader Neil McDougall in XM597, attacked and destroyed a Skyguard fire-control radar of the army's 601 Anti-aircraft battalion on 3 June,
killing 4 radar operators: an officer, a sergeant and two soldiers.
On its return flight, the aircraft was forced to divert to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil after its in-flight refuelling probe broke.
One of the missiles it was carrying was ditched into the ocean to reduce drag, but the other remained stuck on the pylon and could not be released.
Sensitive documents containing classified information were jettisoned into the sea via the crew hatch, and a "Mayday" signal was sent.
The aircraft was cleared to land by Brazilian authorities with less than 2,000 lbs of fuel remaining.
This was insufficient to have completed a circuit of the airport.
The aircraft was interned for nine days at Galeão Air Force Base, before the crew and aircraft were returned on 11 June, after both had been treated well by the authorities.
However, the remaining Shrike missile was confiscated and never returned, and the Brazilian authorities returned the aircraft on condition
that it would not take no further part in the Falklands War.
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Black Buck Five
This mission, flown by Squadron Leader Neil McDougall and his crew from 50 Squadron in XM597, on 31 May,
was the first successful anti-radar mission equipped with AGM-45A Shrike missiles.
The main target was a Westinghouse AN/TPS-43 long range 3D radar that the Argentine Air Force deployed during April
to guard the airspace surrounding the Falklands.
In order for the missiles to work the targeted radar had to transmit up until the missiles impacted.
The first missile impacted 10 metres away from the target, causing minor blast damage to the wave-guide assembly, but not disabling the radar.
Fearing further attack, the Argentine operators used the simple counter-measure of turning their radar off preventing further damage.
The AN/TPS-43 radar remained operational during the rest of the conflict.
Black Buck Six
This mission, again flown by Squadron Leader Neil McDougall in XM597, attacked and destroyed a Skyguard fire-control radar
of the army's 601 Anti-aircraft battalion on 3 June,
killing 4 radar operators: an officer, a sergeant and two soldiers.
On its return flight, the aircraft was forced to divert to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil after its in-flight refuelling probe broke.
One of the missiles it was carrying was ditched into the ocean to reduce drag, but the other remained stuck on the pylon and could not be released.
Sensitive documents containing classified information were jettisoned into the sea via the crew hatch, and a "Mayday" signal was sent.
The aircraft was cleared to land by Brazilian authorities with less than 2,000 lbs of fuel remaining.
This was insufficient to have completed a circuit of the airport.
The aircraft was interned for nine days at Galeão Air Force Base, before the crew and aircraft were returned on 11 June,
after both had been treated well by the authorities.
However, the remaining Shrike missile was confiscated and never returned, and the Brazilian authorities returned the aircraft on condition
that it would not take no further part in the Falklands War.
This aircraft "Katrina Jane", is an RAF GR.1A variant which first flew on the 18th May 1976.
It flew 39 missions during the first Gulf War, based at Muharraq in Bahrain from October 1990 until March 1991.
During this time it was painted in the Desert Pink scheme you see here.
This Jaguar was also deployed to Turkey in autumn 1991 to patrol the No Fly Zone over Northern Iraq to protect the Kurdish people.
XZ119 was retired from operational service in June 1996 and flew to RAF Cranwell in Lincolnshire where it was used for ground training purposes.
