Talk:BAC Jet Provost

First flight

According to this page, the first flight was made on 16, not 26 June 1954. Drutt (talk) 00:03, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

External site link

You have a photo of our jet Provost XW324 on the bottom right of this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAC_Jet_Provost Is it possible to have an external link to our site here http://www.heritageaviation.co.uk/page6.html

Thanks

79.72.168.228 (talk) 13:30, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Another survivor

There's one outdoors (touchable from the road) at Quackers soft play centre, Disserth, just South of Llandrindod Wells. 52.219°N 3.430°W / 52.219; -3.430 The outer shell seems complete, but there don't seem to be any seats etc. Andy Dingley (talk) 08:59, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

Armed version?

Anyone knows it better? How many Jet Provost could be armed? In RAF service there were atleat provision for this or it was only for export? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.11.0.22 (talk) 19:06, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

As far as I remember the Jet Provost was never armed in RAF Service or had a provision to be. MilborneOne (talk) 22:42, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

The Provost was always armable from the outset, but it had to be requested by the customer, or became standard on the later models. AFAIK, all the RAF Provosts were unarmed. There was a version from the outset called the 'Armed Provost', even before the Strikemaster, although I don't think any were built. This was to have the built-in MGs of the Strikemaster, rather than the hardpoint pods, but it didn't have the Strikemaster wing and the heavier capacity. Arming the Provost was mostly useful for ground attack training, or potentially counter insurgency (ie some junior officer wanting to be the people's republic's top banana). As the RAF had little interest in either, they used it purely as a trainer. Weapons training would have been in a Hunter, later a Jaguar T2. Andy Dingley (talk) 22:59, 14 January 2018 (UTC)