Another one from Pete Mears’s archive. “Ahden during Exercise March Hare 1973. The field was so soggy we could only operate one Harrier (XV797) with each sortie consisting of a vertical take-off and landing from the MEXE Pad. The four pilots, Pete Taylor, Jock Heron, Whitney Griffiths and Pete Bennett, (shown fighting for the cockpit), managed fourteen sorties in one day – was that a record, I wonder? The aircraft and pilot were lost in a crash the following year.”
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