This Is To Dispell the Rumours.. by debbielove
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Hi there..
I promised to post a picture of a Harrier, well here you have a bumper pack!
I'll run through quick..
Top one: No1 Squadron GR9, at RAF Cottesmore (now closed as well). Just returned from Afghanistan, and is covered in ..well you can see.. This is a repost..
Next: A new one, taken at RAF Waddington (not closed yet!) This is a GR7, tooled for the job..
Bottom.. Well this is a 'public domain' picture now it seems.. I saw it a while back in a Newspaper.. Dispite the rumors of Squadrons being formed, this that and the other.. NO! This is the fate of the RAF Harriers! They lay in a Boneyard! Either being dismantled to remove 'better' parts.. Or being just sitting there, because they were better than the AV-8's.. The Americans could not believe the deal the got!
No. 1 Squadron's origins go back to 1878 when its predecessor, No. 1 Balloon Company, was formed at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich as part of the Balloon Section.. They WERE the oldest RAF Squadron..
Battle Honors:
Battle honours World War I
• Western Front 1915–1918*
• Ypres, 1915*
• Neuve Chappelle
• Loos
• Somme, 1916*
• Arras
• Ypres, 1917
• Lys
• Amiens
• Somme, 1918
• Hindenburg Line
• Independent Force and Germany, 1918*
World War II
• France and Low Countries, 1939–1940*
• Battle of Britain, 1940*
• Channel & North Sea, 1941–1945
• Home Defence, 1940–1945
• Fortress Europe, 1941–1944*
• Arnhem
• Normandy, 1944
• France and Germany, 1944–1945*
• Biscay, 1944–1945
• Rhine
Suez
South Atlantic, 1982*
Gulf War
Kosovo War
Iraq, 2003
(Those with an Astrix are on the Standard..)
Rob
Comments (19)
Faemike55
Cool shots and great commentary Thanks for sharing
magnus073
Fantastic work on this super cool collage Rob, they are something else
jayfar
A disgusting rotten shame Rob but super shots.
flavia49
very sad sequence!
0rest4wicked
Don't like seeing this history disappear either, but all things are lost to the ultimate victor...TIME! Great presentation!
blinkings
A fantastic, yet sad post.
bmac62
No. 1 Squadron will reform on the Eurofighter Typhoon at RAF Leuchars in September 2012...true??? Anyway Rob, a cool collection of pics. I see the bottom picture is some of the 72 Harriers sold to the US Navy/Marine Corps in November 2011. I know that "boneyard" in Tucson, Arizona.
munich68
Interesting angles, details and information!
goodoleboy
Nice closeups of the once intrepid Harrier aeroplanes, Rob. The bottom shot reminds me of the huge derelict boneyard of military aircraft in arid dry Arizona. There's even one at the Chino, California air museum.
neiwil
Of course we'll all praise Mr Cambafoon and Co next year, when the country is in the black,we have 100% employment,no more wars and every family has a flying car...all thanks to these cost cutting measures.........sorry! I seem to be daydreaming... We're all going to regret this, sooner rather than later, I could rant long and loud and use language my Grandmother (and Rendo) would disapprove of....but you know what I'd say, you've said it so often before with great eloquence. Simply for the waste of engineering skill in creating these and so many other great aircraft,ships etc.. so they can be scrapped before their time and the callous treatment of so many in our armed forces we should be ashamed of and disgusted with our Government. Your top two images show Britain at it's best, the bottom one,at our lowest ebb..it really is enough to make you weep...and fear for our future.
Rainastorm
great shots Robert!!!!
tigertim
Arrgghhhh.. now I see what you mean...sad, sad, sad...have to agree with Neilwil
Maxidyne
Great post Rob and if i'm honest the bottom shot is enough to bring tears to your eyes. As neil points out one of the biggest problem is that once you scrap things like this there is no going back, it's not just an old used car your getting rid of. My childhood was filled with models of Harriers, they will along with the Westland Scout always be special to me :)
RodS
Sad to see these beauties being defiled like this...so sad! Glad you got some great shots of these Harriers before it was too late! Right with ya, Rob!
steelrazer
Damn! They treat these wonderful machines just like they treat people! Or is it the other way around. Just look at some of the aircraft graveyards here in the good old USA. Pitiful.
2121
superb mate, superb
Buffalo1
Fine photos and a sad commentary.
Briney
Sob.... A sight to warm the hearts of entirely the wrong sort of people... If having an armed forces is thought too expensive... how "expensive" is disarmament likely to be...?
junge1
A cool collection of this aircraft. Sort of looks like the boneyard at Davis-Monthon AFB, Tucson!