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  • Bugger – Just missed an opportunity to buy a Tornado F3
  • nasher
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    My Fav aircraft of the cold war yearsand at 37k seems a bargain, then I guess the engines, avionics etc would have been removed, so it will just be a museum piece or something at your front gate..

    Speshpaul
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    With the wings forward I think they would over sail both neighbours, but to be honest I think they would both be happy with that. (I am excluding their wifes…)

    showerman
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    good buy if you have problem neighbours. soon stop causing trouble when you park that in the garden and point it at theirs

    icarus
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    Or you could have had a Harrier,apparently complete in “timewarp” condition for a bit over £100,000 !!

    andyl
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    The harrier is almost flight ready apparently but no mention of the tornado. Would be a hell of a bargain if it has all the engines etc although I guess the running costs are in the £1000’s per hour so the purchase price will soon be eclipsed by running costs if the new owner does intend to fly it.

    joshvegas
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    The harrier is cool but there are far cooler jets than the tornado.

    Jaguars
    Lightnings
    Viggens
    Phantoms

    RaveyDavey
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    Surprised to read it ships with ejector seat intact 🙁 pretty lethal item of equipment.

    jambourgie
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    So could any old buffoon buy that and attempt to fly it from his back yard?

    *checks bank balance

    Duffer
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    Surprised to read it ships with ejector seat intact pretty lethal item of equipment.

    Somehow i think the explosives will have been removed.

    crazy-legs
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    The Harrier would be pretty cool for the commute. Fewer problems with parking it than with the Tornado…

    CountZero
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    Jaguars
    Lightnings
    Viggens
    Phantoms

    Sorry to disappoint, but only one on that list comes anywhere close to a Harrier for sheer coolness.
    None are capable of VIFFing, for a start!
    (To save the Google search, that’s Vectoring In Forward Flight; the jet basically jumps upwards unexpectedly when the thrust nozzles are swung downwards).

    RaveyDavey
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    Somehow i think the explosives will have been removed.

    So its a seat then?

    joshvegas
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    CountZero thats why i compared them to the tornado not the harrier.

    m1kea
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    If you could rustle up a crane, low loader and a big chunk of bluff/blag you could swipe this Tornado from Shoreham airport.

    Apparently it’s the 3rd prototype built.

    Kuco
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    I always preferred the Jaguar.

    mitsumonkey
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    They both look great but that Tornado is beautiful!

    CountZero
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    Soz, so you did, reading it while doing something else I didn’t notice the Tornado on the end.
    That’s why women are better at multitasking than blokes… 😉

    kcal
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    My lad would be in heaven if that Harrier ended up anywhere close here; I’ll tell him to get sweeping a few chimneys to save up! Does look lovely..

    Buccaneers would be for me — there’s one outside our local filling station..https://www.google.co.uk/maps/uv?hl=en&pb=!1s0x48850bbca05ad877:0xc4e08622ff0c4b67!2m5!2m2!1i80!2i80!3m1!2i100!3m1!7e1!4shttp://www.panoramio.com/photo/64256368!5sbuccaneer+petrol+station+-+Google+Search&sa=X&ei=QovWU8q6NaKn0QWR-IDIAw&ved=0CJgBEKIqMA8

    richmtb
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    Ialways thought the Tornado was a pretty ungainly fighter. They shoehorned it into a role it wasn’t made for. As a low level IDS aircraft it was absolutely supreme. As a fighter it was a bit of an also ran in an age the gave us the F15 and the Su27

    Tom_W1987
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    Somehow i think the explosives will have been removed

    In the UK, civilian operators can legally own ejection seats.

    In fact, without a live seat it will be very hard to get a certificate of airworthiness on that harrier.

    andyl
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    Jaguar is a lot prettier than the Tornado. Always thought the fuselage around the cockpit on the Tornado was too lardy. F14 and F111 (much bigger) look better if comparing swing-wing type.

    Ps it states the ejector seat is functional.

    Tom_W1987
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    The jag is a proper single seat pilots aircraft as well, no fly by wire if I remember correctly.

    RaveyDavey
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    Having done contract work for martin baker and ronaldsway I wouldn’t want to rely on one of those seats 😯

    budgierider67
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    Sorry to disappoint, but only one on that list comes anywhere close to a Harrier for sheer coolness.
    None are capable of VIFFing, for a start!
    (To save the Google search, that’s Vectoring In Forward Flight; the jet basically jumps upwards unexpectedly when the thrust nozzles are swung downwards).

    VIFFing was a big propaganda thing in the papers during the Falklands war. It was never seriously considered as a viable tactic.

    Tom_W1987
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    Talked to an ex squadron leader friend of mine once (not Harriers), he said that Harriers were unofficially capable of viffing but it’s a last ditch maneuver that would bleed to much energy to be realistically useful.

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