N. News: Harriers Take Off from Ark Royal For The Last Time

http://www.navynews.co.uk/news/981-harriers-take-off-from-ark-royal-for-the-last-time.aspx

 

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So sad :cry: looks like the fat lady is singing. Thinking of that famous Quote "I counted them all out, and I counted them all back"
BBC correspondant Brian Hanrahan, carefully avoiding censorship whilst describing a Harrier sortie. :cry: No counting them back today!!!!! Brian, like you did on the Hermes in 82

 

From the BBC:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11830094

 

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Snow permitting i will drive up to Hamburg at the weekend to get a last look at her.

 

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I gather that this was taken before the Harriers left. The pilot has put up a notice:

 

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He must be an old and bold LT/CDR Pilot Maam who once flew a sea harrier in some old bbc news archive footage :lol: :lol: http://www.key.aero/view_news.asp?ID=2783&thisSection=military

 

Very sad news indeed.

 

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Just for the record, so that it maybe quoted at appropriate recurrent junctures for the next decade & beyond:

"Pure Madness & complete folly by those who are anxious enough to blame their political predecessors, but blind enough to waste billions in aid to those who would never consider reciprocating loyalty in times of crisis"

 

Last Jet off was a Cnuting Crab one (1(F) Squadron)!!!!

"Unfortunately an old squadron of mine!!!!"

 

closet crab!!!!!

 

Luckily the chap in the cockpit was FAA. :lol:

Of the four pilots on board, there was only one Crab.

 

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/concoughlin/8158181/Their-final-mission.html

 

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I know that it is heresy to have even looked at it, but this is Crab Central's take on today:

http://www.raf.mod.uk/news/archive.cfm?storyid=F28D07AC-5056-A318-A8EE646ECB8A2DCF

 

Re: N. News: Harriers Take Off from Ark Royal For The Last T

Not quite mate.

He's very young and very in the poo!

 

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One for the Purest :wink:

 

Got the right hump last night, had a few beers and a tot and e mailed the CON-servatives and told them where to stick thier vote!!!

In hindsight, maybe a little bit hastey!!!

 

On the bright side, when the Harriers get locked away somewhere, in a few hundred years when the Earth's population has been enslaved by dreadlocked, platform boot wearing aliens from a distant galaxy their downtrodden human slaves can use them to stage a rebellion and eventually overthrow the extra-terrestrial oppressors.