Neatly done, the Marine's didn't always do so well with the Harriers, I saw the end result of one getting a landing wrong, panicking and trying to eject, the canopy's explosive tape didn't go off so he was shredded by the seat breaking through it. The recovered canopy from the basically undamaged aircraft arrived as a bloody mess at the Hamble-Le-Rice plant where it was made, IIRC it was a 'field repair' to the connector that had failed as the detonator/initiator functioned perfectly when tested.

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