I notice the 'Daily Mail' (
) today , Thursday 26-8-10, reckons the Sea Harrier first flew in 1960, and we're now going to lease them from the U.S. !
This would come as a bit of a surprise to Bill Bedford who first tentatively hovered the P1127 XP831 in late 1960, and John Farley who flew the first Sea Harrier XZ450 on August 21st 1978 !
I thought the image of a bunch of monkeys given typewriters was just an allusion...