The Swansea Harrier led all the way to win in a lifetime best 49.58 seconds.
Military experts concluded the aircraft pictured was a Harrier, but could not identify the mystery object.
The male hen harrier is famous for its spectacular looping "sky-dance", part of an elaborate mating ritual.
The Tipton Harrier's winning time of 73 minutes two seconds was 16 seconds faster than her Team GB rival.
And the Sea Harrier's range is limited to a few hours of flight.
The government decided to retire the HMS Ark Royal and its fleet of Harrier jump jets in 2011, five years early.
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The RSPB lists hen harrier as a red status species, meaning it is threatened and populations have suffered severe declines in numbers.
Fairly soon the choice narrowed to one between the Harrier and Tornado.
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Belgrave Harrier Neil Speight had more than five seconds to spare as he won the 1500m in a championship record of 3:43.31.
The Cairngorms National Park Authority hopes to follow up sightings from the public by tracking down hen harrier nests and satellite tagging chicks.
And it saw the cancellation of equipment including Nimrod MRA4 reconnaissance planes and the early withdrawal of HMS Ark Royal and Harrier jump-jets.
However, the 24-year-old Swansea Harrier did not race over the hurdles in his national championship but won the 400m flat in Cardiff instead.
They argued strongly for the Harrier to get the chop instead, and succeeded creating the carrier gap, since no replacement could be ready quickly.
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The Birchfield Harrier's personal best throw of 62.99 metres - achieved last month in Cardiff - will give him medal hope on his Commonwealth Games debut.
They would carry short-take-off and vertical-landing versions of the Joint Strike Fighter, stealthy planes that are being developed jointly with America to replace the Harrier jump-jets.
But while the amendment introducing a permanent ban on coursing was carried, there was relief for beagle and harrier packs as a more stringent hare protection measure was dropped.
It includes ground troops with supporting artillery, amphibious assault vehicles and light armour, plus transport and attack helicopters and perhaps AV-8B Harrier jet fighter-bombers, capable of taking off and landing vertically.
They included an 1840 portrait of William Stratton, "head keeper to Sir John Cope of Bramshill Park, Hampshire", by Edmund Havell, and a 1797 Philip Reinagle painting Harrier Killing a Bittern.
The beauty spot is part of the Berwyn Mountains site of special scientific interest, whose protected moors provide ideal habitat for rare birds such as the hen harrier and the black grouse.
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Certainly it is now clear that the work done on the cost implications of retiring the Harrier force and replacing it (after a gap of many years) with F-35C was quite inadequate.
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With one exception: since the review's publication there has been simmering rage over a plan to scrap 80 Harrier jump-jets and Ark Royal, an aircraft-carrier, and to keep the RAF's Tornado fleet.
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Cold, yes, but we got very close to a young male marsh harrier, perching on a branch and I shall never forget his imperious glare, feathers golden in the low winter light.
The strategic defence review included plans to scrap Harrier jump jets, the Navy's flagship HMS Ark Royal and Nimrod spy planes, as well as 42, 000 Ministry of Defence and armed forces jobs.
As with earlier efforts to bring to fruition revolutionary technology, like the helicopter and the Harrier "jump jet, " the military undertakes difficult challenges when the pay-off is clear and the risks acceptable.
Though primarily a helicopter carrier, at least one Iwo Jima-class ship was qualified to operate the American version of the Sea Harrier, according to the 1982 edition of Combat Fleets of the World.
He said the government should never have scrapped its Harrier jump jets, which he said had been "sold off to America for a fraction of their value" - a decision he said risked "international ridicule".
The status of the hen harrier in England is now markedly worse than it was five years ago and it may cease to be a breeding species if the current level of persecution continues, the group says.
Instead, it will use the F35B, which will use a ski jump type take off ramp much like the now retired Harrier, and the first operational carrier will be available, says the MoD, in 2018 rather than 2025.
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The Ouse Washes includes a large floodplain which is looked after by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and provides a habitat for the Bewick's swan and whooper swan and wintering birds of prey, including the hen harrier, merlin, peregrine falcon and short-eared owl.
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