The article Pont Nav refers to is at
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...01/wafg101.xml
I have just fired off a brisk letter to the STel ed, text below:
Sir
In an otherwise fairly balanced article on air operations in Afghanistan, Tim Ripley and Gethin Chamberlain perpetuate a myth (RAF bombing campaign is fiercest since Iraq invasion, 1 October). They quote, without contradiction, Major Loden’s statement that "a female Harrier pilot ..... strafed our perimeter, missing the enemy by 200 yards". This cannot be true, since the Harrier GR-7 carries no gun, either internally or in an external pod.
I don't regularly see said paper, and will in any case be enjoying the fun at Duxford's last show of the season next Sunday, so if anyone sees this published, perhaps they could let me know?
airsound