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Tuesday, 8 February 2011

How to restore a Harrier

Popular Mechanics has an article on how to restore a Sea Harrier fighter jet to operational condition.

Thank God for that.  I bought one off ebay on an impulse last summer and it's been cluttering up the back garden ever since.

3 comments:

  1. There is currently one Sea Harrier for sale at eBay. Unfortunately we don't have a spare million quid.

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  2. "Hovering on a cloud of noise".

    That sounds so
    Douglas Adams-ish.


    PS: My capcha key was "toryness"
    today. That would be funny were I British.

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  3. That must be how the guys in the Battlefield Earth movie got their Harriers up an running so easily.

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