Acknowledgements

Thanks to John Gabor, Tom McGhee, Mark Russell, Steve Bartlett, Brian Johnstone and Elmo Croft for providing some of the images, to Baz Richardson for providing some information from the "inside", to Howard Curtis for the Indian Sea Harrier information, and to Ron Fulton at the Boscome Down Aviation Collection for the picture of XZ457. Thanks to Art Nalls for providing an image of the restored XZ439.

Reference works:

• "Harrier" (Modern Combat Aircraft 13), Bill Gunston, ISBN 0711010714, publ. Ian Allan, 1981.
• "Harrier: Ski-jump to Victory", John Godden, ISBN 0080311679, publ. Brasseys Publishers Ltd, 1983.
• "Air War South Atlantic", Jeffrey Ethel and Alfred Price, ISBN 028399035X, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1983
• "Designed For The Kill", Mike Spick, ISBN 1853101214, Airlife Publishing Ltd, 1995
• "Sea Harrier: The Last All-British Fighter", Jamie Hunter, ISBN 1857802071, Midland Publishing, 2005

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