Restoration of the appearance of the honored veteran of the Cold War and local conflicts
The Jaguar fighter-bomber, created by the joint efforts of British and French aircraft manufacturers and first flew in 1968, can rightfully be considered an epoch for the British, French, and Indian Air Forces, where it was produced under license. Built in a relatively small series of 573 copies, it remained in service for more than 30 years and participated in many conflicts, including in the former Yugoslavia, but the real highlight for this recognizable machine was the "Desert Storm" of 1991. Today, like the absolute majority of contemporaries — such as the Soviet Su-17/22 or MiG-27 — the Anglo-French and Indian Jaguars retired and went to the collections of museums, where they are returned to a decent look. Soviet boys were familiar with the outlines of this beautiful aircraft from the widespread FROG/NOVO model, produced by the Naro-Fominsk Plastics Factory in a terrible two-tone box.
The Jaguar of the GR1 modification presented in the video with the registration number of the Royal Air Force XX747 was restored in 2021 as a museum exhibit by the specialists of the Jet Art Aviation company, who removed the entire process of changing the paint - from removing the previous layers and the old primer to applying the classic British gray-green scheme Dark Green / Dark Ocean Grey. It was in this form that the XX747 distinguished itself in 1977, when a speed record was set on it on the segment between the English and Scottish capitals — the Jaguar covered 330 miles (530 km) between London and Edinburgh in 26.5 minutes, showing a speed of about 750 mph (1210 km/h).
The easily indelible pink "desert" coloring of Desert Pink flashing in the frame with numerous marks of combat sorties in Iraq, as well as a drawing depicting a British boot giving a kick to Saddam Hussein, initially misled the restorers. Yes, not every surviving Jaguar could boast of such a view, but then it turned out that XX747 did not take part in the battles, and the museum workers painted him a "veteran's uniform".
