Harrier Jump Jet In My Back Garden: Enthusiast Restores Iconic Plane
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- Harrier Jump Jet In My Back Garden: Enthusiast Restores Iconic Plane
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WHEN it comes to middle-aged men and their pet projects, a Harley Davidson or classic Mini will normally suffice. But not for Neil Banwell who has spent the last six years fixing up a Harrier Jump Jet. The 45-year-old bought the fighter jet on eBay for £10,000 in 2007 - without telling his wife, who was livid when she found out. He now estimates it is worth ten times that sum but says neither of them want to part with it. The fighter also comes with an interesting war history, having led the first attack dropping cluster bombs on Port Stanley during the Falklands War.
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I've stayed on his site and he is more than willing to open up the hanger and let you walk around the jet. Very friendly couple.
Only 7,000,000 PEPSI points.
Bigtruckseriesreview Motorsports lmao
😂
Nice comment.
12 million
They raised it to 700 million after the lawsuit.
This chap has class, small boys collect Airfix aircraft, he collects real fighter attack machines. I want one.
You want a chap or a jump jet?
Restoring a harrier jet is definetly on my bucket list😂
The Girl: look dad, I'm flying a Harrier Jump Jet.
(all of a sudden, she took off flying)
SpongeBob SapientPants Look dad I'm flying a harrier jump jet (911 footage plays)
Nevakonaza - then BOOM
Bit cringey the way she said it.
Look dad I’m flying a barrier jump jet missle fires
“Got a bloke making some sidewinder missiles” - Mi5 wants to know ur location
Jay Choi no it’s mi5 mi6 deal with overseas affairs
Thats a good one!
The man deserves a medal . Great to see such a great piece british aviation being looked after .
Lol...preppers have Ghillie suits, AR-15s, maybe an anti tank missile.........this guy has a fucking Harrier
LOL😂😂😂
not going to do him much good without the engine and an ability to fly it. meant to be the very difficult to fly
Preppers have things that work. Without the engines, this thing is just garden decoration.
precisioninstruments It was more of an exaggeration done on purpose
I've met Neil and his wife a very nice couple and Neil is always willing to open the hanger to let you have a good look around the harrier. He also has 2 fuel drop tanks in his field that look like huge bombs lol. Nice quite farm to stay on, so google Castle Farm camp site if you ever want to stay on his site and have a look around the harrier.
I bought 1 of these for 1,000,000 pepsi points.
SilverSnake you mean 7,000,000?
Hunter Bruyere he got a discount since he worked at pepsi
originally it was 7,000,000
the guy even due to get it and they didn’t give it to him then rase it to 700,000,000
that is mess up tho.how pepsi thought of the court system and the whole world saw it.fault advertising.if a Chinese company advertise that the guy would win in court bet yall.
In about 40 years he can trade it for a used F-35.
carabela125 45 months would be closer
He probably already owns a dog.
nah that would be downgrading
carabela125 f35's are fucking beast... fuck the haters
+Nissan Tiida yes its beast but the harrier is better.
I've been to quite a few airshows and this was the aircraft I remember the best. It's incredible speed when doing the flyby and it's ability to take off vertically, hover and fly backwards! Amazing! It was unbelievably loud too.
Really important to keep these things alive. They are living archaeology. Think of the thousands of Spitfires, tempests etc that got scrapped or even pitched off carriers into the sea at the end of WW2. Such an incredible waste. Now there are hardly any of some types left.
at the end of world war 2, thousand of aircrafts both from the USA, England, and Germany were ordered destroyed. I have a historical book with color photos of P51 mustangs, P40 Thunderbolts, P38 lightings, Bf 109 Messerschmitts, being chopped down in the field where allied and German troops left down. these were in flyable condition. even the pilots who flew them were saddened by these carnage. only a few were left to serve as fighters for allies of the USA. imagine, the cost of a P51 mustang was only $30K at that time. just like the cost of todays medium priced car.
Ramon Kabigting Well, include inflation and it getrs closer to a million now. All the more reason not to waste them, even for their materials. But those were the conditions of the lend lease: we give you cash and materiel now, and then at the end of the war you ditch all your beautiful planes into the sea so you don't push down the price on our military exports. And now something like a Tempest II or a P-38 or Mosquito is more valuable than gold dust because nearly all of them were destroyed or cannibalised for parts by crop dusters in the US.
The conditions of lend lease were to return the material after the war.
Yes, but in actual fact, the stuff that got sent over was seriously devalued by hard use and the fact that technology had progressed so fast. So a Martlet/Wildcat from 1940 was not competitive with a Sea Hornet or a Vampire made just a couple of years later, so the cost of returning them was probably higher than their worth. Later war, the lend lease worked both ways, as the British war machine picked up the pace, it was producing better planes than the not-quite-current ones that were included in the LL. A little different for tanks, as the Sherman proved a great low-cost platform, especially in its modified forms with better guns etc.
The thing about the lend lease's post-war terms wasn't about the actual materiel that got shipped, but about the defence market afterwards. They still wanted the UK to buy from US companies, which they wouldn't have if they still had all this stuff lying around to fill up support roles or be broken down for materials, so it had to go. It was fair enough economically, given how much stuff had been either given or sold at massive discount, but it was pretty tragic and destructive of all these beautiful machines.
The material was devalued but it still was returned, per the original conditions of lend lease. If the US wanted to pay the cost of transport all the way to American soil that was up to them and some of it was. Sometimes it was just a matter of taking it into the American zone in Germany and saying "here it is" Or US bases in England. Much of it was sold off to other smaller allies or dumped. Lend Lease worked both ways early in the war when the US was caught short and unprepared. The British war machine picked up pace when the war started, 1939, and British and Canadian stocks of war material was still bigger than what the US had at the end of 1942. One of the items were small ships for escort duty that Canada and Britain provided to the US. The British were producing better planes even before Lend Lease started and provided them to USAAF when they arrived in England and North Africa. The agreement about Lend Lease post war terms was that the US wanted Britain to open up it's consumer and commercial trade to include the US after the war. Before the war Britain mostly traded among it's Empire, colonies and Commonwealth. The US wanted in to help benefit the US economy. Another Lend Lease term was for the US to take over Britain's military bases around the world. As far as Britain buying war material from the US defense market after the war, Britain still built it's own tanks, planes and ships. They didn't buy from the US after the war for the most part. Agree completely about the beautiful machines.
Amazing!...he still has a wife?
0:55
And beautiful wife.
jajaja! Excelente!
you know shes soooooo pissed
If he didn't she wasn't worth having anyway
Good to see someone holding on to an Iconic part of our aviation heritage. I spent 6 years carrying out 3rd line major maintenance on Sea Harrier FA2's and T8 two-seaters at St.Athan until 2005. Good to see one again and its gives me flash backs to the noise and smells of ground runs, ECS checks and functionals :) Hope is goes well in getting the parts and I would concentrate on getting it panelled up (panels 2a etc) to keep the wonderful British weather out! Goodluck and all the best...Tim
Used to love seeing the Harriers at saints, both as a kid and an adult. Even managed to work on a few as a CAB back in 2002 - 2003 ish. Missus probably wouldnt be happy with on ein the back garden, but i know me old man would love it! lol
Legend
"I've got a bloke making a couple of sidewinders" 👏👏
Admirable! Cheers to the man! Noble to take care and restore a piece of his country s history! KUDOS!
If it was mine I’d sit in it all day until my wife knocked on the canopy asking for a divorce.
My Reply: “You’re 💥🕹🤏”
Fantastic preservation of history, especially something as sexy as a Harrier. Keep it going.
Every kid's dream!!
He bought this on Ebay? I just bought a watch on Ebay.
thats so awkward and so unfunny even though you thought ppl will crack up
Get that engine and get 'er flyin'! Great job and great jet. One of my all time fav's :-)
Engine would probably cost £150K I don't think he has the money for that and that's why he was up for selling it...
Fit a ducted fan EDF unit ;)
Totally awesome! Thanks for the video!!
Well done!... I have a mate and he was Tactical Radar Operator on HMS Invincible during the Falklands War he didn't know if he was going to live or die?....we have a GR3 Harrier here in a NZ museum... thanks from NZ 👍🇳🇿
I remember driving through the Herefordshire countryside in the late 00's and saw a Harrier flying around in a field. It was unreal to look at. Huge plane.
Fantastic! A great project and an important restoration. Well done!
WOW.. If I had such a spacious back yard, would probably do the same..!
I bought the Millennium Falcon off of Ebay a couple of weeks ago but I couldn't find any Plutonium to power it with, so now it's just an extra large lawn ornament. : )
The house coordinates? I want to see the Harrier on Google Maps.
Castle Lane, Heath House, Wedmore, Somerset BS28 4UH
Wow!!👍👍
Nobelprice to this man🎓🏅
that’s cool the harrier is one of my favourite aircraft
Love it! That's a really neat airplane and I appreciate its history!
It is the new weapon for home defense!
Awesome!
What a badass:) this needs a kickstarter
1:17 god the cringe
Self Made Haha,yeah me two,a totally unnecessary gratuitous bit of sickly sweet kid nonsense! Seen but not heard should be the rule.
Mark Hepworth that comment alone was more cringe than what she said in the first place
.....my goodness......my missus growls at my 1/32nds "flying" above her when she dives into our shared 'office'....can you imagine her banshee cries if I attempted to shove a Harrier in our side yard...hee!hee!hee!I do , however, get away with pieces of a crashed DC-6B from 1953 in my shed....so I 'spose I have the "last say" after all....:):)
Awesome,my dad's machine shop made dies for the belly jet ports,and dies for the compessor turbine years ago.
Woah... That jet's worth OVER 9000!
This is incredible !
i'm not sure if i should be proud or embarrassed but i understand this man. this is exactly what i would do only with an F16. no i don't need an engine, i can enjoy the static display. if it were flying i wouldn't be able to see it. the shape (to me anyway) is the purest embodiment of jet aviation. sure the 22's, 35's, 14's, Rafales, and Migs are all nice, but after the 16 the mold was broken.
it's nice to have, look at just sit in. Better there than scrapped. Good for you.
Get it flying again and I will be really impressed. the engine is going to be painfully expensive though. Still, to have a complete flight-worthy Harrier would be something that even the boys at Thunder City would be kind of jealous over just a little bit.
wow, that is lucky you found it, impressive, good luck on completing this harrier
I saw Kindergarten during The Falklands War. Really cool machine!
My X-Wing Fighter Soon to Be Complete. 😁✈
pure history respect to you sir
If he blows it up he Can just call pegasus and get a new one
Finnish ball Haha indeed
Brilliant.. If I could do something similar..I would.
I would love a Spitfire replica, but sadly my garden is too small.
good for you man,,thats wicked youve got that harrier in your backyard,,take care of it,,
This is one of the best things money can buy.
TheStressD: £10k many not buy you happiness. It will allow you to hover very close to it...
Was a time when I'd have given up a lot for the abilities and training to fly one of these. Totally another level of craft in it's day.
your obviously not a pilot because they had a pretty bad reputation...unless you flew one..
I know their reason was bad because it was more of a helicopter pilots jet. As it constantly had to be flown. In the beginning, there were many crashes. After that the air force started using helicopter pilots to test fly the plane
Amazing!!!!
That is incredibly cool
With this thing in your home,super car is nothing.very cool!!!
Dude, you rock!
Just a casual day looking on eBay oh look is a harrier jump jet 😯😂
If that one little girl can show such delight at sitting in a Harrier, then, the best place for it is on a Static display in front of an ice cream parlour. Business would boom within the first hour of opening - it would be like the Piper of Hamlin attracting all our kids! The guy would get his 10K back within the year. And, I'd be muscling in at the front of the queue - to hell with the kids!
And suddenly the neighboures barbecue-partys became much,much quieter.
Oh,.... this is nothing..... right now I have a large USS Arizona battleship occupying the entire family room in my house !
Sooooo cool!
My all time favourite plane
The kid says:
My dad have a jet
The school friends: no chance
In next day:
Hes go to school in a jet
I would love to own that Harrier
it was funny "LOOK DAD I'M FLYING A HARRIER JUMP JET!"
Wonderful ;)
Amazing
Freaking Awesome!
...So, when your Sea Harrier is eventually restored to flying condition,do you plan to blast off from your back garden with sidewinders and everything.? I bet it will be quite a sight for your neighbours.
Pepsi guy finally got his jet
Well done.
Just "PLANE" Cool!!!
Hells yes!
Very cool
i would love to have a harrier
This guys living how I want to
wonder if I can get one from the thousands of decommissioned aircrafts in the boneyards in Arizona. my first pick is a B52 that could be converted into an air BNB😂😂
You are better off getting a plane from a mothballed fleet. The boneyard is for an aircraft that already reach the end of it's service life. The airframe is already badly fatigue and may not survive another flight. But if you just want it for static display, then i guess it's ok.
That would be cool! My brother was a navigator in the B-52. He could be your navigator!!! LOL
lanunselatable You are incorrect about Davis Monthan AFB. Many of those aircraft ARE mothballed and can be put back into service fairly quickly. However, most of the aircraft there, are simply waiting to be cut up for scrap.
My dream house would be a converted C-5 haha
156 of The Queen's enemies saw this, and were discomforted.
what?
That is so cool
well done
Look dad I’m flying a harrier jump jet hehe
Way cool !
‘ look dad im flying a harrier jump jet ‘
No, no your not.
Cool!
just needs to find an engine, get it to flight worthy status and get FAA approval to fly it! Lease it to airshows and make some money with it! Then once bored with it you can sell it off for a cool million or so!
+Alex P You mean the CAA? I doubt they'd would approve to be honest! British bureaucracy is legendary for it's inflexibility! :(
"Then once bored with it..." I cannot imagine that ever being possible! :D
+Alex P A fully restored harrier jumpjet would be about 2 million....unrestored goes for about 1.5 mill
A collection like Duxford might get approval, they already own a bunch of old jets for shows. But theres no way they would just allow some guy to cane it around in his own harrier just for lols.
I think I have a Harrier jet engine in my garage... it might be a bit dusty... I'll have a look and check... Nah it was an old vacuum cleaner motor. Sorry.
Alex Porter The fuel is exspensive
BadAssPilot from USA : "I'll give you $1000, still a huge risk for me"
It's going to stay a bit longer yeah, I don't think I'll sell it, but I am waiting for the the deal, I don't think I'll ever sell it, it's going to stay here a bit longer yeah. Lmao
This guy have good taste for aircraft, in the future nobody will want to restore a turd like the F-35
ripmax333 when i first saw the F-35, i was pumped to see this in action (with a fact that my country is going to buy it for replacing the F-16), but when they told me it was a VTOL, i had a broken hart because this thing is a combinasion of a F-22 raptor and a F-18 super hornet : really cool. But because its a vtol, it sucks... and thats a shame for such a really beautifull navy jet and i love navy jets. Usually, i dont like vtol's but the harrier is an exception.
+JENS DAEMS Should've bought more Super Hornets instead for the Marines
+JENS DAEMS The lockheed martin f-35 is a turd. The boeing f-35 outclasses it in pretty much every aspect, but it looks ugly so no one wants it... xD
ripmax333 idk the f35 looks awsome and i would buy it so i can have it in my backyard
ripmax333 Everybody thought the Harrier was a "turd" when it first came out...
Good find on EBay
Smart buy.
that joke flew right over your head like a f-22 raptor..
If he keeps it pristine, he is in the market to make quite a bit of money on just selling the parts in the next 20 or so years. Awesome investment and cool to boot.
MY GOWD!
The commentary says the serial is ZX494. As can be seen on the aircraft, it is XZ494.
Great prop for a film.
too cool
Good job, man. If I have money, I will buy a T-28D
She's beautiful👍
10,000 pounds for a jet?
I know, I wish I came across it because I would pay that in a heartbeat!
It's not a jet, it's junk
Without the engine.
TheLuismondo its a hovering jet, thats not junk
+JJMMMEAC It's not going to be doing any hovering without an engine lol
I'm a bit disappointed. I was expecting the guy to have an operational Harrier parked in his garden. That would have been awesome.
Damn... I didn't know you can buy even a jet on ebay 😅