GAF Jindivik & the target drones

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as ZJ496, the Farnborough Air Sciences Trust Museum’s GAF Jindivik Mk.104A, Australian serial A92-901, one of the last production batch of Jindiviks built by the Government Aircraft Factories in Melbourne for British weapons trials, which flew 12 sorties before it was retired to the museum at Farnborough: Australia’s radio-controlled jet target drone, 20 ft 9 in in span, with one Viper turbojet fed by a dorsal intake above the nose, a cylindrical fuselage, a short, straight, constant-chord wing carrying long pods with drooping fins at the tips, a ventral fin under the tail and a long nose probe, shown standing level on its original three-wheeled take-off trolley with its landing skid part-extended: gloss red with a golden-yellow top band, yellow upper wings and tailplane, a black cheat line, intake lip and nose tip, Type D roundels on the rear fuselage and the upper wings, ‘ZJ 496’ ahead of the fuselage roundel and ‘A92 901’ on the fin above a red fin flash, rows of kill marks behind the intake, yellow and red wing-tip pods with black nose and tail cones and white fins, on an orange trolley, as repainted in 2024–25 (no photograph since the repaint shows the port side, so its markings mirror the starboard, and no photograph shows roundels under the wings, so none are painted there). Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 215 models · download .glb (605 KB) · Plate 153 in The Hangar