Many thanks psychnaut, fantastic pictures – the best I’ve seen of ‘tin’ Harriers.
I will have to try and get in contact with one of your contributors, Wilfred Zetsche, as he seems to have taken at least a couple of pictures of XZ993, including one in the excellent ‘British Harriers GR.1 – T.4’ book I will try and do that through your site.

I’ve got a thing for over weight and over shadowed naval types, so this is great news.

Yes, some SHars in storage at Shawbury, Gosport, and Culdrose. A large number are still alive at the last mentioned with the School of Flight Deck Operations where they are taxied around to teach deck handlers their trade.

Interesting pic, was this Firefly testing the aerodynamic shape of the larger A.S.7 type rear canopy arrangement?

Wow, I love the A2D Skyshark, did you get any more pics of this XT-40 powered monster Flightpath?
That pic must have been taken just pre-restoration.

The B-88 Y.B.1 was the only A.S. D.Mamba version of that strange little family, the B-54 Y.A.7 and Y.A.8 both being Griffon powered, though the .8 had dummy Mamba exhausts for aerodynamic testing.

Tom Prickett was a company test pilot for Armstrong Siddeley Motors, so that all makes sense.

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What troubles me is that if these gauges are so dangerous how is it that many surviving aircrew live into their eighties after having been exposed to fresh material for many hundreds of hours.

Got to be careful pursuing that argument Graham, as was pointed out to Spitfireman and myself today, by a very respected head curator, the levels of various cancers in 60-80 year old men is high. Some peoples bodies and immune systems react to exposures to any chemicals in different ways of course, but for every healthy ex airman I know of a certain period, I can think of a few more that have had cancers.
As much as I think some of this is indeed overboard, there is clearly a need to take the subject seriously and be able to demonstrate that we are taking some responsibility, and safeguarding our collections.

The Gannet isn’t ugly, it’s just, well – workman like!

Thanks for the extra pics of the Skyshark, fantastic aircraft, I think it’s beautiful (you should see some of my ex girlfriends!:p)

Now that we have gone off topic can we include pics of the Dark Shark?!