Some photos of G-HUEY / AE-413 here:

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=68006&highlight=HUEY

A View to a Kill (plus Christopher Walken as the bad guy)…..no question!

eBay! 🙂

(Don’t take the ‘insults’ seriously, they weren’t meant that way; you’ll know when they are on this forum! :D)

Nice photographs…..as always! 🙂

HMS Hermes looks in quite good condition here (as opposed to the way she looked when she returned to the UK) was this taken on the same day as the one of HMS Invincible?

How many gun kills in the Falklands 1982?

Next to the famous Lynx kill by Pucara there were several damaged helos, even one SHAR hit by FAA Daggers. I have found no exact record for British gun kills but I seem to remember a C-130 kill by SHAR or Pucara kill by GR3(?).

The only Argentine air-to-air victory was a Scout rather than a Lynx.

As far as I know no Sea Harrier FRS1 of Harrier GR3 was ever hit by a cannon shell (or anything else) fired by an Argentine aircraft.

No Argentine helicopter was shot down by a FRS1 or GR3 but several were destroyed on the ground with 30mm cannon after quickly landing when British aircraft attacked (one Puma actually crashed while taking evasive action before any shots were fired). One Puma survived due to ammunition exhaustion; could this have been destroyed on the ground (engines running) by a Sidewinder?

The C-130 that was shot down was hit by one of two Sidewinder missiles (the first, fired at extreme range, fell short) and when the Sea Harrier fired its 30mm guns the wing of the C-130 was already on fire.

One A-4 Skyhawk was certainly destroyed by 30mm cannon fire from an FRS1 and another A-4 (damaged by ground fire) was further damaged by 30mm from an FRS1 and although it was not immediately brought down it was abandoned later.

Three T-34 Turbo Mentors were also attacked by Sea Harriers with 30mm cannon and a single cannon shell passed through the unoccupied rear canopy of one of them. In this engagement it was not considered ‘sporting’ by the FRS1 pilots to use their AIM-9L missiles.

The Pucara was one a pair (the other escaped) attacked by three Sea Harriers with 30mm cannon. I have often wondered why in this case missiles were not used to bring down both Pucara and think that this may also have been a case of the FRS1 pilots not considering it ‘sporting’ to do so.

There is another instance that I can think of where a Sea Harrier shot down one Dagger with an AIM-9L and then failed to hit another Dagger with 30mm cannon while a second AIM-9L remained unfired.

In another engagement at dusk over water a FRS1 pilot was able to locate and identify an A-4 Skyhawk due to the splashes caused by 30mm cannon fire aimed at it by another FRS1. The A-4 was destroyed with a Sidewinder.

I’d love to know how much the range and loiter time of the Sea Harrier could have been extended by flying without their 30mm gun-packs as several Argentine aircraft escaped due to Sea Harriers having to break-off at a critical moment due to fuel shortage.

Rear fogs should be used in fog and heavy motorway spray, never other times.

I disagree, they should never, never be used on a motorway in the rain.

In these circumstances they are far too easily confused with brake lights and cause a large amount of traffic surging, and as a consequence of that, a large number of accidents.

And he was right too…..the only thing that didn’t work out the way he predicted was the will to resist displayed by those being bombed.

My main reason for posting the Stanley Baldwin quote was to show that the idea of bombing civilians wasn’t just a reaction to German (or Spanish, or Japanese) bombing. As you suggest it was a widely held principal.