He’s recently acquired a lovely Sea Harrier FRS2, which is in his beer garden – very nice chap and obviously a valiant crusader with impeccable taste!!

[nitpick]FA.2, there’s only one FRS.2[/nitpick]

Does an X wing count for an aviation museum?
TT

I don’t see why not; Lucas drew heavily from WW2 dogfights in the pacific for the starfighter stuff in the Star Wars films (even using stock footage/war movie footage as placeholders in his early review reels). I wonder if it’s a “genuine” X-Wing or a promotional/fan replica.

And you think that won’t help him enjoy his retirement?

Moggy

Definite coffee-over-keyboard moment there, thanks!

Why does the Mk.XII have all the best period photos?! I’ve only found one Mk.V in such dynamic “poses”. Plenty of great shots, (colour ones over Mt Vesuvius etc) but few at such great angles showing off the wing. Which is sad, since the XII mostly has those nasty clipped tips…

Thanks for the info David. If GR.1 (DB) is an official designation, I’m curious as to why Wittering regard (and display) it as a P.1127 (RAF). Didn’t the XV batch of development airframes come before the adoption of the name “Harrier” (coming from the 1154?

I must say, thought the sequence went:

P.1127 > Kestrel FGA.9 > P.1127 (RAF) > Harrier GR.1 (renamed after delivery of the six development airframes.

This leaves me with various questions. Were the two designations interchangeable? Was GR.1 (DB) HS’s term, and P.1127 (RAF) the RAF’s? Or was GR.1 (DB) retrospectively applied?

Another for your list, but I don’t have the serial. There’s a P.1127 (RAF) at RAF Wittering – it’s the one they used to lower from the ceiling at the Royal Tournament.

I’m informed that this won’t be making a return – the hardware has moved elsewhere and the installation was replaced at Lambeth by the 1940s House.

Fairly easy when ya have access to a machine shop, got 25+ M2’s “react’ed” about 12 years ago. I know for a fact that some of them are flying around in aircraft, 6 of em are in one aircraft….

UK old spec M2’s? Perhaps. New spec (welded solid) less likely, and uneconomic. With access to said machine shop it would be easier to manufacture a weapon from scratch. In fact there’s a slightly scary website by a guy who was put away for the requisite five years for designed and making his own sub-machinegun (amongst other weapons). Just because he could.

Think of the Sten. The .45 Liberator. Firearms are not difficult to make with the right tools, just one reason why legislation like this is a waste of chops (obscure Harry Hill reference, sorry).