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That's more or less right Jan, although there were differences between bomber/PR/Intruder, and the control column yoke should be more semi gloss black, with a bit of paint wear all around. As mentioned in our phone chat, I'll try and get some cockpit shots for you, unless Gary (GeeDee) can do us a favour at Cockpit Fest this year? I doubt I'll be able to get there if my Jeep is sold.
BTW, Harriers were going for around £7,500, delivered, by air (!), at a little extra. These were GR3's. The Jaguars were around the same price, less engines and avionics I believe. A Jaguar has just 'gone' on E-Bay for £15K. The guy I used to do the Corporate Days for was going to buy a couple of each, but left it too late, as he was also bidding for more armoured vehicles.
Hi Cromwell. To answer your second question first, I'm not sure if the MoD released the Sea Harriers for disposal by tender through the normal invited/registered 'buyers' channels, but I'll try to find out. The Harrier GR3's went at such a relatively low cost because they were old airframes, having been in service for over 30 years!
For a living? Regretably, I'm 'retired' due to disability. However, at one time I was in the military (SF), followed by a career in the photographic and printing trade. After redundancy, and at 'that age' where finding another, equivalent full-time job is near impossible, I started a small business to market my Avaition paintings, drawings and profiles etc. This was seriously affected by a certain high-street framing company going t*ts up, owing me a fair amount of money, and followed soon after by the crippling effects of Rheumatoid Arthritis. Until just over a year ago, I was involved in military themed Corporate Entertainment days, and similar events, including S.A.S. 'experience' and 'survival' weekends, and also did some after dinner talks, and lectures/demonstrations on small arms. The former I had to cease, as the Arthritis progresed, but the latter I still manage to do occasionally, and, fortunately, I am still able to paint and draw, albeit with greater difficulty.
Hope that answers things?
Thanks Mathew. I do try to take various exercises, in order to keep things 'moving' as it were. I have tried virtually everything going, and will never 'poo poo' any suggestions, if they have even the slightest chance of helping. This condition, now 'officially' recognised as a 'disease', is something I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy, and is particularly hard to accept (or was) having been so supremely fit and active up the the age of 45, when it first struck. Almost cetainly as a result of past injuries and jungle infections, BTW.
It has progressed so muvh over the last year or so, that my Specialist Consultant has finally been able to gain approval to prescribe the new 'wonder drug', Humira, which is self-injected every two weeks. this is so expensive, at around £12,000 PA I believe, that the 'Powers that Be' will only authorise it, or so it seems, as a last resort.
Fortunately, after using it now for 2 months, it seems to be taking effect, and it's not so difficult, or agonisingly painful, to get around, although, of course, the damage already done will never repair itself. I'll still have a permanently locked right knee, and my left hand will still only function at about 30%, or less, being totally inflexible (volunatrily) in the fingers, with my right hand being about 90 to 95% 'normal'. But, I'm still alive, and (almost) kicking, and otherwise healthy.
There are a heck of a lot of people worse off than me, so I can't complain, but it would be nice to be able to walk in the hills again.
Excuse me Cromwell,but now I would like to ask you a question.
Are you going to contribute here or you want to sell exercises or something like that? For your reiminder advertising and trading here is forbiden and punished by banning.
For a such help you can use the Private Maessage option.And I would suggest it very much. This thread is for Lucky13's Canberra model and all infos on that are appreciated here the most but hi-jacking rather not.Please think it over.