Having read Empire of the Clouds there is a passage where the author describes being allowed to fire off a round in a meteor, oh to do that these days.

Still I think that the gun camera footage (if it had been fitted) would show that the wall can be put down as a confirmed kill!

The sky hook option was looked into with the Harrier, no idea what the conclusion was but clearly not viable at the time.

But as has been stated don’t see why UAV option isn’t something that can be completely ruled out.

Not the best photos but then I’m an artist not a photographer but hope you like these, if anything is out of focus it was probably the shivers!

Thanks for showing us the pics,, truly a sad time for the Harrier community and certainly not one of the UK’s finest hours.

Agreed, seeing some amazing photos but at what cost?

Going to be an interesting day tomorrow.

Don’t forget what he did for Premiership rugby with the Cherry and Whites (Gloucester), I know that as a F1 and rugby fan his loss has been felt across both sports.

I wonder how an Israeli ended up on the sheet as it wasn’t even a country at that point

I have come across passages about Sikh pilots but that was more due to the ‘novelty’ value as there were so few Sikh pilots. I would personally assume that there were quite a few Jewish pilots.

People tend to be interested in what they can relate to or identify with so for this individual who clearly feels strongly about the religion it is something which needs covering. Though when listing pilots as ‘Battle of Britain’ I wouldn’t include Bomber or Coastal Command in with that.