Peter Robinson describes the rare 46ft Harrier II GR7 jump jet that sits in the garden of his Arts and Crafts home in Hampshire as his “garden gnome”. The mathematician, 56, bought the warplane — with its Rolls-Royce Pegasus 105 turbo fan engine and inert side-winder missile — in 2015 after developing a lifelong obsession with the jet-powered attack aircraft, the first version of which was built two months after he was born in 1967.
“I thought, well, you know. Your average Joe, he likes a Harrier jump jet, he’s got a windowsill — he buys a Harrier model that is eight inches long and he puts it on his windowsill,” he says. “I think, in many ways, this is no different. I’m just lucky
