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Old 13th Sep 2008, 18:35
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Double Zero
 
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'''' Hi Beagle ! ''''

I was just going to add, on a serious note, that the first Sea Harrier to fly ( XZ450, in the hands of John Farley, August 1978 ) was also set up & instrumented for the Sea Eagle anti-ship missile - a more intelligent & harder hitting thing than the Exocet.

Sadly ( to say the least ) this aircraft was the first victim to ground fire, on an early iron bomb raid into Goose Green.

Pilot Nick Taylor didn't have a chance to get out, but the story goes that when the Argentines found the missile control panel, they wrongly assumed the fleet were ready to go with the weapon.
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