Lima Juliet
8th Jun 2002, 08:52
Just read the whole Jubilee Flypast Thread and noticed an unanswered question:
Q. Why no Harriers?
A. A single engine Harrier with those ridiculous intakes glides like a brick after losing a donk at the 280kts IAS the flypast was flown at. I believe that the Big Cheese quite correctly assessed the risk too high especially after the GR7's engine failure record.
Point of interest: Eurofighter had to rely on an F3 to get him to the correct 2nm spacing due to no RADAR and A/A TACAN. British Waste-a-space wasted a massive PR opportunity to try to "impress" any interested customers by putting up the untidy black jet with a 43 Sqn emblem on the fin, a Spin-Chute attached to the back and a couple of nasty Sidewinders (Even the F3s were carrying ASRAAM when they took off from Coningsby).
A good job it's supposed to be replacing the F3 at Coningsby in a year's time?! I sense another "Blue Circle Radar" fiasco , anyone got any griff on the progress of ECR90?
LJ
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Q. Why no Harriers?
A. A single engine Harrier with those ridiculous intakes glides like a brick after losing a donk at the 280kts IAS the flypast was flown at. I believe that the Big Cheese quite correctly assessed the risk too high especially after the GR7's engine failure record.
Point of interest: Eurofighter had to rely on an F3 to get him to the correct 2nm spacing due to no RADAR and A/A TACAN. British Waste-a-space wasted a massive PR opportunity to try to "impress" any interested customers by putting up the untidy black jet with a 43 Sqn emblem on the fin, a Spin-Chute attached to the back and a couple of nasty Sidewinders (Even the F3s were carrying ASRAAM when they took off from Coningsby).
A good job it's supposed to be replacing the F3 at Coningsby in a year's time?! I sense another "Blue Circle Radar" fiasco , anyone got any griff on the progress of ECR90?
LJ
:eek: :eek: :eek: