BAC Jet Provost T Mk.V - RAF Cosford Airshow 2018

British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) Jet Provost T Mk.V, XW324, G-BWSG, owned by Jeffery Bell, displaying during the RAF Cosford Airshow 2018.
The Jet Provost was initially developed as a jet engine modification of the piston-engine P.56 Provost, retaining its original wing structure mated to a new fuselage.
It was built as a private venture by Hunting Percival Aircraft Limited at Luton Airport.
The P.84 Jet Provost prototype (XD674) first flew at Luton on 26th June 1954 with Dick Wheldon at the controls. The aircraft was developed in liaison with the RAF Flying Training Command to ensure that it incorporated many of their desired characteristics such as easy instructional processes and low cost maintainance.
Later flight testing at Boscombe Down refined some of the designs and in Febraury 1955 the first of 10 pre-production aircraft took to the air. Just 3 months later 3 aircraft were asigned to the Central Flying School for assessment into an 'Ab Initio' ('from the beginning') training role.
A number of design changes and refinements were made by Hunting Percival and the T2 made its maiden flight on 1st September 1955. The T2 was purely a development variant and a number visited Scandanavia for winterization trials during the winter of that year.
In 1957 Hunting Percival received their first tangible success for Jet Provost when a production order was received for 40 T3 aircraft with the increased power Armstrong Siddeley Viper engiine, ejector seats and a revised undercarriage arrangement.
In total, 201 T3's were built at Luton between 1958 and 1962 although the T4 variant was already underway by mid-1960. The T4 carried an improved Viper ASV.11 power unit and it was very quickly adopted into RAF service by the key training facilities at Cranwell, Little Rissington, Linton-on-Ouse as well as RAF Leeming and RAF Ackington. 198 T4's were built before a further engine upgrade and the addition of pressurisation saw the arrival of the T.5 which first flew on 28th February 1967.
Numerous militarised export versions of the T5 saw aircraft (T51) serving with air forces in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Kuwait and Sudan as well as T52's in Iraq, South Yemen, Sudan and Venezuela.
In October 1967, the new BAC Strikemaster took to the skies and so dawned a new era for the iconic design which started out as a private venture for Hunting Percival Aircraft over 15 years earlier.
Jet Provosts remained in service into the 1990's and due to its easy and inexpensive maintainance, a number still remain in flying and taxiable condition in private hands today.
Specification
Jet Provost Mk 4 Jet Provost Mk 5
Powerplant 2,500 lbst Viper 202 2,500 lbst Viper 202
Span 36 ft 11 in 35 ft 4 in
Maximum 7,400 lb 6,989 lb
Weight
Capacity Instructor / student Instructor / student
Armament Normally unarmed
but capable of
underwing stores
carriage
Maximum Speed 410 mph 440 mph
Cruise Speed 390 mph
Maximum range 700 miles 900 miles
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[@simonpalling3215]

Used to see these, in that colour job all the time it seemed when I was a kid living in Donnington, not far from Cosford. I think there was a training school there during the 70s.

[@quickstopUK]

Where did you get the range being 900 miles for a Mark V?

[@HighFlight]

From here - wrong perhaps? - www.baesystems.com/cs/Satellite?c=BAEHeritage_C&childpagename=UK%2FBAELayout&cid=1434557419607&pagename=UKWrapper

[@geoffphillips8029]

Variable noise constant speed aeroplane.....