Last Harrier Flight from HMS ARK ROYAL
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Erm, isn't that footage on the BBC site of a Sea Harrier rather than a GR9?
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Erm, isn't that footage on the BBC site of a Sea Harrier rather than a GR9?
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Petty Officer Andrew Collins, 26, from Glasgow, said: "HMS Ark Royal is like the girlfriend you hate and you only realise you loved her when she has binned you."
A time for reflection though.. big shame.
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Try this
This is the video you want from the Beeb's man aboard Ark
BBC News - Tears as last Harrier jets leave Ark Royal
Not a bad effort from the Beeb, I thought.
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BBC News - Tears as last Harrier jets leave Ark Royal
Not a bad effort from the Beeb, I thought.
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Just a pity no-one got his rank right!!!
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Helpful Stacker,
You must mean a different shot compared to the short BBC video in the post above yours ? That ain't no Sea Harrier...
There's a reunion / farewell party being organised at the pub outside Dunsfold, where all UK Harriers inc' Seajets were built and test flown.
The chap organising this expressed the hope that at least one or two Harriers may be kept airworthy for display purposes...
My response, sadly, is that there's zero chance of that.
If you see any TV programme on air displays, the devlopment of VTOL, Great British Engineering, you name it, the Harrier is usually called 'favourite' or similar.
So, just as there's no Sea Harrier in the RN Historic Flight as that would have highlighted the Admiralty's folly in binning the Sea Harrier, the 'govt' is hardly likely to want their noses rubbed in a decision which I dearly hope will bite them; sadly if things go pear shaped it won't be them 'making do' though, will it ?
I presume having a carrier without aircraft is just an exaggerated sulk," didn't want your shippy thing anyway ".
You must mean a different shot compared to the short BBC video in the post above yours ? That ain't no Sea Harrier...
There's a reunion / farewell party being organised at the pub outside Dunsfold, where all UK Harriers inc' Seajets were built and test flown.
The chap organising this expressed the hope that at least one or two Harriers may be kept airworthy for display purposes...
My response, sadly, is that there's zero chance of that.
If you see any TV programme on air displays, the devlopment of VTOL, Great British Engineering, you name it, the Harrier is usually called 'favourite' or similar.
So, just as there's no Sea Harrier in the RN Historic Flight as that would have highlighted the Admiralty's folly in binning the Sea Harrier, the 'govt' is hardly likely to want their noses rubbed in a decision which I dearly hope will bite them; sadly if things go pear shaped it won't be them 'making do' though, will it ?
I presume having a carrier without aircraft is just an exaggerated sulk," didn't want your shippy thing anyway ".
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Helpful Stacker,
You must mean a different shot compared to the short BBC video in the post above yours ? That ain't no Sea Harrier...
You must mean a different shot compared to the short BBC video in the post above yours ? That ain't no Sea Harrier...
The original video featured in the link posted by the OP showed a Harrier with a very black and pointy-nose, with Aden cannon pods and just the two pylons per wing, features found on a Sea Harrier (hence my comment).
I was never the most cabbage-like of the crabs but telling the difference between a Sea Harrier and a GR9 is not difficult.