Quote: "In the 1980's Dunsfold offered a ride in our 2-seat demonstrator Harrier G-VTOL ( traditionaly John Farley's mount, now at Brooklands Museum ) as a prize for ' Children in Need ' but the BBC refused, saying it was too dangerous!""
In the mid 80's Cranwell offered a prize in a JP for a charity competition with BBC Radio Nottinghamshire (I Think). The winner turned up at Cranwell with her family. It turned out she was a woman in her fifteis who was about 5' tall and weighed about twenty stone. If we could have got the straps round her and she was withinin the seat parameters, she would have probably snuffed it at 2g. The flight was offered to one of her family, but she was adamant she was going to fly. When told she couldn't, the atmosphere was ugly with swearing and threats of legal action.
No more flights offered to the public from then on!