John Farley
 

John,

Thank you for your post. Disappointed not to see you at Cottesmore yesterday - a sad but fitting final tribute to a magnificent aircraft to which you personally made such a major contribution.

Fred737

There was an Air Commodore there, didn't recognise him. Turned up along the line as the pilots were walking away from their jets. Must have been a flier, he was wearing his leather flying jacket :O

BomberH
 

Instead of collectively giving tribute to the passing of a unique aircraft which served its country well for many decades, we end up bickering - in a public forum - over who does what better. No wonder the civil servants & politicians can so easily make cuts.

Vertico
 

Thank you.

I was sorry not to be there but I had a prior engagement at Yeovilton the night before.

JF

how many Harriers did we have left and what will happen to the airframes?
bb

BB wrote,

See numbers break down on following.

Carry On, Harrier: key.Aero, Military Aviation

'The contract has flexibility to allow for surge periods of high demand and an increase in capacity up to 20%, but normally will require 45 GR9s and 7 T12s to be available for operations from a pool of 66 and 9 respectively, which is a particular challenge regarding the two-seat T12 with only two reserves to play with. The recent loss of a Harrier T12 in Cyprus on February 9 is stretching two-seater availability. Group Captain Ebdon confirmed that a recent review had looked at purchasing US Marine TAV-8Bs, were they were considered too far from RAF standard to be viable.'


You can also check them out by serial running from ZD318 to ZH665 at the following.

UK Serials

Harrier Production

From

Harrier.org.uk homepage

TJ

What would have been nice would have been a trip in a (T10) Harrier to arrive at Cottesmore 'in style'!