Jaguar, RR disAstour

[Agaricus bisporus]

Flight magazine 29 Jan page 22 states that the failure rate for the Adour engine in the SEPECAT Jaguar is six, yes SIX failures per 1000hrs!

Surely this is a ghastly typo, don't they mean per HUNDRED thousand hours???

Even WW2 piston engines were not as bad as that, surely.

This report can't be correct, surely???

[Dissi Loo Shunned]

The problem is that as the Adour produces the same amount of thrust as the average FJ APU, it's often difficult to tell when it's failed.

[Perky Penguin]

Flew 1500 hours in Jags and never had an inflight failure. Plenty of rejections caused by ground inspections but nothing in flight!