2nd Grade SS member??

This post most likely violates some rule here on SS but it's funny..

"Thanks to eBay, a seven-year-old London boy managed to purchase a real-life Harrier fighter jet. It was easy: All he had to do was click on a bright "buy it now" button on the auction site, send a payment of about $113,000, and he'd be ready to live out every young man's fantasy. There was just one problem: He didn't have the money — and his dad found out about his shopping spree.

Whoops! The fun was over right then and there as the boy's dad immediately called up Jet Art Aviation Limited, the company who had placed the jet on eBay, and explained the situation. According to My FOX Chicago, the company was very understanding and canceled the sale right away.

There aren't any details regarding what happened after that — though we do know that Jet Art Aviation Limited put the jet up for auction again — but we imagine that there is one very disappointed seven-year-old boy in London right now."

You can buy Harriers on Flea Bay???????

How far can a Harrier fly on full tanks?

Do they take credit cards for JP8?

I am soooooo screwed.

They dont take credit cards from guys wearing possums on their heads.

Doesn't $113,000 sound like a deal for a Harrier Jet?

And dont take credit cards from guys who wear possums

Parents just don't let their kids do anything anymore.

Here is the pic. Wish I had the cash.

No engine included.

$113,000? It would cost you that much and more just to take off the first time.

Just goes to show. You really can but anything on the web these days!

Oh, OK, I just read it. It is a static display item, decommmissioned. No engines. Could be retrofited. External reconditioning only, for the most part.

First flight would cost a heck of a lot more than $113,000, so I was wrong (again) the first time I posted.

I bet the kid didn't know he was getting a non flying aircraft.

wow i wish i had that one parked in the front yard.. but i dont have that kind of cash either... wishing with one hand empty... the other....

Even static is has a cool factor of 10.

Sure would look good at the GA Rally......with Elmo D. Possum sitting in the cockpit.

wreckerman893 said:

How far can a Harrier fly on full tanks?

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If my memory serves me correctly, we carried 630 gallons (imperial) fuel in the inner wings and fuselage. When we didn't run with the extra 100 gallon tanks and performed a full rolling take-off (not VTO), with no more than 5,000 pounds external ordinance, we would get about a 1hr 15 minute mission, or a max radius from base of about 250 miles. This would leave us with sufficient fuel for 3 times around the pattern (if needed) and a non vertical landing before it started to get "hot" in the cockpit.

Wonder if that would fit in my driveway