I always love to be around to capture a little bit of history. I've never seen any other photos of the last departure of the Sea Harrier from HMS Illustrious, so thought I'd show you mine, as something that most of you would never get to see (as no-one will ever see it again now). I hope that it is of interest...
The practice flypast went like this the week before...
...but was tamed down to this on the day...
Nice and steady...
...steady...
...damn, the deck rose at the last moment...
He counted them in (one Sea Harrier), and counted them out (one Sea Harrier)...
...and then it was gone and consigned to history...
SB