"Wasn't the second F/A-18B lost on it's way to Farnborough in the early 1980's?"
1980 or early 1981 I think. No later. It was the day chosen for me to be interviewed at Normalair Garret (now Honeywell) - and the interviewer was only too keen to get rid of me and find out what had gone wrong. Needless to say, I failed the interview.