Flying the Sea Harrier | Jon Parker (In-Person Part 2) 

Any footage of it matey or was this something you saw yourself would love to see

Chris is that you? Tell us all the story of the day you swallowed a fly and vommed in your crash helmet on the way to work shippers!

@@davidmartin1571 Sure is shipwreck! I’d forgotten about that! Took ages to get the smell out of my lid!

@@diaryofaherbert7423 you’ve got a better memory than me of those Cyprus dets. I remember the night the locals tried to get onto the base and the madness that ensued in the the American bar.

@@davidmartin1571 How many times did we drink the Triple A dry?……….

You got that right. Pilots are a different breed and everything they say is worth listening to. I always remember a Vulcan driver describing night time air refuelling training for a raid on Port Stanley. "It's like trying to push a piece of warm soft spaghetti up the arse of an angry cat, blindfolded."

Cheers, Melton.

You said it brother.

Royal Navy way... There is a bit of a "daring do" as standard in the RN, if no one else will do it RAF / USN etc it is taken as a challenge that the RN MUST show the way to do it. Being former Royal Navy, I have a few dits. The greatest compliment was from the Army and SF - "When we hear the RAF is doing a Helo Evac, we expect it be 50/50 to turn up or late - or bad weather waved off. When we hear RN is coming - we know they will be there to the second, in any weather or enemy fire or anything". Timings in the Navy are sacred / an institutional obsession - You are late, you miss the R/V , the Carrier, the window, the evac point - it is basically heresy in the Royal Navy to miss an R/V in time and space for anything, literally anything, a meeting, an order, a launch time, a waypoint. *Excellence is the minimum standard*

I thought the same thing, he does look like him when he smiles.

Ha! I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that!

Good comment, saved me writing it 😉

Haha yes. Also the delivery of "What's your excuse?" sounds a lot like his David Brent character.

Camp as Christmas!

Cheers!

Bloody politicians, especially the 70s Labour government f***ed the UK aero industry and many incredible projects with it. Along with some palm greasing from McDonnell-Douglas.

Cheers Stuart.

Maybe ;)

Cheers!

Cheers Iain.

Great to hear you enjoyed it.

Cheers Brian.

I agree it is an excellent interview. Yes, it is a Chipmunk. The serial is WB624.

Cheers

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Knew Nick Richardson when he was a Seaking pilot on 849 A Flight. I was a maintainer, him and the other pilots used to come down our mess and party - Nick can drink!

They are brilliant. I have been wearing them for 4/5 years now.

My father worked on lightning, buccaneers and the sea harriers.

Sorry to hear about your father Jon, I was one of the trade chiefs on 899 NAS when the Vixen came into service and later worked in the IPT as Engineering Authority. I believe i remember Tony and his little book of error codes! The field engineers were a godsend in the early days.

Yup. And all based on late 50s theory.

It’s the 2 seat trainer version of the Harrier

The training aircraft (2 stick-er) the Harrier T Mk 8

@@flybytechnology6261 from another Nuneaton lad done good, fantastic interview Sir. I had the privilege of chatting to R Eatwell only a couple of weeks ago about the virtues of the Sea Jet. It’s nice to see it and the stories of those who flew it reach a wider audience, especially as there were so few who flew it. Best regards, J