British man buys SeaHarrier jet on eBay

PA News ^ | 27 Apr 2007

[Tommyjo]

You won’t get a Sea Harrier in USMC markings.

The nearest you’ll get is an ex-USMC Harrier pilot who owns an ex-Royal Navy Sea Harrier.

Art Nalls is shortly to make his first flight in the newly civilian registered Sea Harrier.

http://www.nallsaviation.com/

http://www.nallsaviation.com/PHOTOALBUMS/SHARPHOTOALBUM.htm

[snippy_about_it]

I have to wonder if anyone ever got it?

[Wheee The People]

nice toy

[R_Kangel]

I don't know. I don't like buying high end items on eBay.

I bought an F-18 Hornet a few years ago. When it finaly arrived in the mail I found out that it didn't work! I had to spring for the return postage!

Ever since then I stopped buying military hardware on eBay.

[RunningWolf]

I hear you. I bought a FireFox and everything was working great on it, only you had to think in Russian.

It arrived in the dead of winter so I decided to use frozen over Lake Michigan for a takeoff runway. Unfortunately it broke thru the ice and sank on me, and since it is completely stealthy, I cant locate it..., sigh.

[alfa6]

There was a guy who tried to buy it from Pepsi. I forgtet all of the details but when they wouldn’t sell the Harrier he tried to sue. The judge tossed the suit saying any reasonable person would have known it was just an ad gimmik. At least that is they way I recall it.

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[Yo-Yo]

http://www.snopes.com/business/deals/pepsijet.asp

[alfa6]

Thnaks Yo-YO for finding that Snopes article. I didn’t realize that there were “investors” involved. Other than that it was pretty much as I recall the story.

Regards

Alfa6 ;>}

[snippy_about_it]

Thanks yo-yo for the rest of the story. :-)