Harrier GR3, XV799, has been replaced as RAF Wittering’s gate guardian by GR9, ZD469. XV799 is to be refurbished, possibly for exhibition at a planned heritage centre on the base.
The 60th anniversary of the first flight of the WB188 was marked at Kemble’s Cotswold Air Show by a formation of eight Hunters: six Team Viper aircraft, a T8 from the Dutch Hawker Hunter Foundation and Jonathan Whaley’s multicoloured Miss Demeanour.
The August edition of Aeroplane had a fascinating article about the
Sultan of Oman’s Air Force Hunter operations in the war for the control
of southern Oman.