John, in my recollection of your Farnborough displays, you never needed a lot of horizontal airspace to demonstrate the capabilities of the Harrier.
I remember your last departure from us in GVTOL. You asked for a bit of concrete for takeoff. You did your 'normal' VTO liftoff rotating to a vertical attitude straight off the ground and climbed to 2000ft like that before setting course for Dunsfold.
AWESOME!!
Nobody ever did it better than you.