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Ah we were posting at the same time. The PC didn't like the link, get wanting to instal a Japanese character programme, I kept declining that it took me to some dating site shall we say. So missed what that was all about.

No the Hornets were made in UK, by Wharton Engineering of Elstree. There were 12 operational, 12 in reserve, I think 4 prototypes & 2 wooden ones. Cost by 1963 just for the Hornet project, which excludes the missile development, was £90 million.

BTW that picture of the Hornet firing was taken by a friend Capt Peter Russell was was EME for Cyclops Sqn 2 RTR, the troop trials unit.