IAF Jaguar bird strike

[willedoo]

A couple of days ago, this IAF Jaguar lost an engine on take off. Quite a fireball when he dropped the tanks and practice munitions.

 

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[phantomphixer]

He’d have needed to punch off the external stores just to stay airborne. We used to say that they needed the curvature of the earth to get airborne on a hot day when armed.

[F10]

The “Pussy Cat”, I always thought it was a nice looking machine. In Oman, one of the RAF QFIs told me once when Jags arrived at another unit for an exercise, the next morning, the Jag boys saw each aircraft had a little bowl of milk put out in front of it!