Sea Harrier FA.2 "wing light".

[Gambrinus]

I am in the process of building Kinetics Sea Harrier FA.2 and I have stumbled across a thing that puzzles me. In the leading edge of the port wing, very close to the fuselage, is a light. Kinetic will have me use the light, but they actually also have include a blank, though without mentioning it.

Checking pics on the web, it seems that some have the light, others not.

Is there a reason for having the light or not having it?

Thanks for your help, as always.

Cheers

Christian

[Richard E]

Christian

Wiser heads can probably confirm this but I've always assumed that the the light was intended to illuminate the in-flight refuelling probe.

Unless it could be blanked, I agreed, I don't think it was fitted to every aircraft - very much a case of check your references,

[Shar2]

Richard is correct. The light was generally only fitted when the flight refuelling probe was fitted.

[Gambrinus]

Thank you very much for the replies.

I have one more question: I mean to believe that the aircraft I am modelling had the flight-refueling probe fitted at the time, but I am not able to find pics of this. Was it possible to fit the probe to all Sea Harrier FA.2s?

Thanks again

Christian

[Shar2]

Yes, all Sea Harriers had the capability to have probes fitted.

[Gambrinus]

Thanks very much, Dave and Richard.

Cheers

Christian