Originally Posted by
sandiego89
MPN, the Sea Harrier was a FAA aircraft, no mater what color coveralls the pilot wore in the cockpit....
Accepted, of course. I thought the RAF Harriers splashed something Rotary? Not exactly Air Combat, but all’s fair in love and war!
Oh, so Air Cdre Geoff Cooper, my one-time boss as AOC MATO, was the last? Before he became Air Correspondent for the Daily Telgraph. Never knew that!
One of the pilots involved in the first incident was Geoff Cooper (from 208 Sqn) who later that year was shot down by the American pilot Chalmers Goodlin, flying an Israeli Spitfire Mk IX. Cooper was found by Bedouin tribesmen and returned to his base. Like the Spitfire, he would later fight in Malaya.