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A Royal Air Force Harrier Jump Jet Waits to Depart from HMS Ark Royal MOD 45153235
Category G – RAF Photographer of the Year - sponsored by Calumet. 3rd SAC Mark Dixon, RAF Valley.
Royal Air Force (RAF) and Royal Navy (RN) work closely together. No. 1(F) Squadron RAF and 800 Naval Air Squadron (Royal Navy) Harriers, four in total, disembark HMS Ark Royal for the very last time. Sailing towards Hamburg, the Captain, aircrew, and all the ships company work together in preparation for take off. Wing Commander Haines is the last Harrier aircraft to leave 'The Ark'. All aircraft departed RAF Cottesmore 18 November 2010 and embarked on Friday 19 November 2010, and departed 0n 24 November 2010. Historical Occasion.

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