Originally Posted by
Downwind.Maddl-Land
Saw the headline and thought 'Oh, no - surely not?' But alas. I remember Mark - and the other 1(F) Sqn - chaps with really happy memories from my time at Port Stanley immediately after the cessation of hostilities (I was in the vanguard of the REMFS) and ATC and 1 Sqn always got on really well. Mark was always welcome in the 'Twr' (such as it was!) and could tell a good yarn. Somewhere in the aviation pictorial archive is a snap Mark took of an Argentine soldier hefting a Blowpipe; said soldier has a look of - shall we say - bemusement on his face as he looks ACROSS at Mark's Harrier which someone I believe calculated was about 15 ft agl......
Blow pipe AND SA7, but both facing wrong way - see page 90
https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documen...rier-Story.pdf