Harrier at RAF Wittering

[Tony2or4]

Was driving up the A1 yesterday, and on passing RAF Wittering I noticed the Harrier which they've got on display at the entrance, but I only got a few seconds' glimpse of it. Back home, I checked it out on GoogleMap Street View for a closer look, and it seemed to me that the Harrier in the Google image was different from the one I glimpsed: I'd got the impression of the shorter-nosed version, in plain grey, whereas the Google image one is the long-nosed variant, in camouflage green/grey.

Does anyone know whether they have in fact changed the Wittering Harrier, or was I just mistaken in what I thought I saw?

[Tony2or4]

KieronGSi said:

They changed it from a GR3 (long Thin nose) to a GR9.

http://forums.diecast-aviation.eu/showthread.php?t...

That is very interesting. Thanks for that, K.
Once more, a question rapidly answered by the collective knowledge of PHers.

[Tony2or4]

andym1603 said:

When a plane does a loop why do they always start low and go high. Is it possible
to start high and go low, over the top so to speak?

Not a pilot myself, so don't know the ins and outs of looping (nor indeed any other manoeuvre), but I recall seeing a film at least 30 years ago, called 'The Great Waldo Pepper', starring Robert Redford, in which the main story line involved the Redford character attempting to do the downwards-first loop.