RAF and RN Harriers I have known! (images)

[Manonthefence]

With the impending retirement of the Harrier from RAF Service…Booooo Hissssss(well it is Christmas) here is a selection of pictures from the numerous photo albums and boxes that constitute my archive.

All those non digital have been scanned from film or Transparency using my knackered old scanner so apologies for the quality. I am fortunate to be the custodian for the archive for my late friend David Goodall and his shots are marked as such.
As ever many more shots and info on my blog here

[Bill Greenwood]

They sure can hang a lot of stuff off those airplanes.

I am not a jet guy, but if I were given a choice of several the Harrier is one I'd like.

[RMAllnutt]

Great photos Nick, as ever. I am still in shock that they are retiring the Harrier so soon. It seems absolutely criminal to me. No effort at a proper send off either, which is astonishing given the types importance and service to the country. What will happen to the airframes, do you know?

All the best,
Richard

[Manonthefence]

Thanks chaps

I will try and go through the archive over the winter and see what else I have in there of other types and earlier events I visited.

Richard

I have no idea what will happen to the airframes, they have gone in the name of defecit reduction which I am all in favour of, but that doesnt mean I have to like their retirement. In any case they will go into store initially but they arent much use as scrap metal, they are mostly "plastic"!

[billtate]

Thanks to Manonthefence for the great pictures of the Harriers and Sea Harriers. Next to the Spitfire the Harrier is the greatest contribution to aviation that left the shores of “jolly old England”. (My humble opinion) At least the USMC and Spain will still carry on with them for a while. Thanks again.

[JDK]

If Nick doesn't mind, here's a few I've dug out from my archives. Not as good photographs as Nick's, but some interesting machines and times. Some of them Harriers iz Kestrels, of course. Comments, correction and more details welcome.


Middle Wallop, Army Air Corps Display - 1980s?


Biggin Hill Air Fair, mid 80s.


This one shot by my father, a USMC Harrier at the early 1970s Farnborough show.


They get hungry you know - Shuttleworth.


Kestrel at Yeovilton.

[JDK]

Kestrel at the Science Museum.


Farnborough Airshow.


A very experimental beastie. Plenum Chumber Burning.


USMC Harrier at the Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton.


RAF Museum.

[Firebird]

At least the USMC and Spain will still carry on with them for a while

And India and Italy......

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[JDK]

And a few more:


What where when?


RAF Museum Kestrel


Duxford


Duxford with an earlier fighter.


Shuttleworth

[JDK]

With an earlier Hawker (Camm's first and last).


RAF Museum, Milestones of Flight.


[Corrected] GR7 in ARTF for ops over Bosnia, Duxford. - thanks to MOTF.


Duxford.


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