Two Harriers on the flight deckFrom The Daily Mail:
HMS Illustrious is Britain's biggest warship - a small city on the oceans that has spent three decades living up to its noble name. Now it's old and weary and outclassed by gleaming modern rivals. Live's reportage team went on board to chart a proud aircraft carrier's voyage to the scrapyard
Hiding an aircraft carrier should be very hard indeed. But our Sikorsky S-61 helicopter has been skimming the surface of the North Sea for 30 minutes - we are so low that the distant swell disappears above the blades of the chopper - and I cannot find any part of the 680ft HMS Illustrious. And I've got a window seat.
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