Eject! Eject! Eject!

[tc2324]

By warned, this is a dio of a real world incident...!! 

Airfix Harrier GR.3 kit in 1/48 scale for those that like to know.

Squadron Leader Bob Iveson left HMS Hermes to make the attack and two passes were made over the Argentine positions; then Sqn Ldr Iveson decided to make a third. His Harrier was hit by two 35 mm shells which knocked out his controls and started a fire in the cockpit.
At around 100 ft, he immediately ejected, As he was only at around 100 ft, he immediately pulled the ejection handle and left the cockpit while the Harrier was doing around 450 knots and his aircraft exploded in mid-air shortly afterwards; he hit the ground after being under the parachute for only ten or fifteen seconds.
He suffered spinal compression and wind-blast damage to his eyes but hit the ground sufficiently far from the Argentine positions to make good his escape and was picked up two days later by a Royal Navy helicopter.















If anyone wants to play with their photoshop app and put a Falklands back ground in, please feel free.

[sandiego89]

I especially like the shards of the canopy- well done

[Dork the kit slayer]

Good job mate. There was one on BM but wasnt half as good.

[Captain Canada]

No RW apologies needed for somat that cool and relevant. Great build. Thanks for sharing it with us !

[DogfighterZen]

Nice work, the pilot and shattered canopy looks great and it's always good to learn some history too!

[Weaver]

Excellent - I love stuff like this. Bet the Harrier SIG would be interested too.

[The Rat]

Well, a real modeler would have figured out a way to have little suspended shards of canopy in mid-air.

I'M KIDDING! Great job! 

[tc2324]

Thank you all guys. 

Someone from another forum had a crack at the old photoshop....., 

[Modelling_Mushi]

Excellent job, very well done 

[Dizzyfugu]

Nice work! Real action in a static kit 

[zenrat]

Very good.

[dumaniac]

great work

[The Chaos]

Good Work. A Kit in action