MILITARY GATE GUARDS

[Brit plumber]

Oddly the gate guardians at Coningsby are a fair distance beyond the gate. They've got a Tonka and a Phantom and much further on site is an EE Lighting.

We have a Tornado F3 and a Phantom on the gate, a EE Lightning on XI Sqn (Not as good as it may look) and another EE Lightning on 29 Sqn. 41 have a Tornado Gr4 tail with art on it and also a Jag tail.

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I think that's a different Harrier to the one which James Dyson now owns because I believe his crashed in the Mediterranean while operating from HMS Invincible.

I'm pretty sure the Lowestoft Harrier would have been scrapped. When I saw it in the black top hangar at Wittering in 2005 it was dissolving from the salt corrosion and the cockpit had sheared off behind the EJ Seat. All the crash recovered Harriers were in that Hangar as the RAF didn't know how to dispose of them economically due to the large amount of Composites in the structure. Same as Typhoon, when DK crashed at China Lake, it was brought back to the UK in a C17 and its been sat around for the last 9 years with only about 23 flying hours consumed out of a life of 6000hrs. No one knows what to di with it.