Warbird Information Exchange

Hello there,

I was catching up with some old mates with whom i worked with on Jindiviks and other such ventures in the 80's and we were wondering if there are any remaining Jindiviks on display in the states. As their end use was basically a smoking hole in the ground, do many survive?

I wasn't aware any went to the USA; so thanks for the question! List here:


http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/ ... divik.html

For those wondering what we are talking about:

http://www.defence.gov.au/Raaf/raafmuse ... s2/A92.htm

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if my failing gray matter is correct, i think that the U.S. Jindiviks were ordered with special mods, nothing radical but possibly different camera pods? my brain hurts to much if i try and think back to far.

Man! what a "Kangaroo Chaser" that thing is

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Not just kangaroos old son, i watch one go astray of the launch dolly and it nearly took out a mob of R.A.A.F. Officers watching the launch, it missed em by that much!

As far as I know there are no surviving Jindiviks in the U.S. I believe they were operated out of Pt Mugu Naval Air Station and remained in Australian markings because the Americans thought that the leaping Kangaroo roundels were "cute".

The Jindivik is the only Australian designed jet aircraft to see mass production and it is one of the very few indigenous Australian aircraft to carry foreign markings. Twenty brownie points to anyone who can name two others.

Jindivik is an Aboriginal word meaning "the hunted one". Below are two images of the "Jindi". One was taken at RAF Llanbedr and the other depicts a Mk1 preserved at the Swedish Air Force Museum.

Actually it is on display at the museum at the Vidsel AB and not at the Swedish Air Force Museum - Vidsel is approx 1 000 km N of Linköping and the Flygvapenmuseum.



The website of the RFN Museum at Vidsel AB: http://www.vidsel.nu/rfnmuseum/

I'm up for brownie points, I say GAF Nomad and Gippsland Aeronautics Air van,
what say you.

I could have sworn that the Swedish Jindivik was at the Swedish Air Force Museum. I distinctly remember their guidebook listing one. However I could be wrong: I often am.

On the subject of indigenous Australian aircraft carrying foreign markings I would have said the GAF Nomad for sure and the CAC Wackett Trainer; 18 of which were sold to the Netherlands East Indies after World War 2.

Well, you are right in one sence - it belongs to the Swedish AF museum, that is correct. But it is placed in the Vidsel museum and the picture was taken there

The Swedish Jindiviks were all used at the Vidsel test range (RFN).

just ran across this photo (source www.aircraftslides.com)



Martin

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A fair number of Jindiviks are preserved in Australia. The one seen below is preserved at the home of the Jindivik; in what is known as the Missile Park in the centre of the township of Woomera in South Australia.