The Harrier Jump Jet: How Cold War Anxiety Inspired a Vertical Takeoff
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The Lockheed AH-56 rigid rotor Cheyenne was the sort of fast attack helicopter you were hoping for. Sadly the project was scrapped. i.redd.it/a0x861rdqh351.jpg
do a video on the R-7/Soyuz/Vostok
10 RUclips channels, and now an insurance salesman as well.
Want a seriously sketchy VTOL craft? Check out the V22 osprey. I have personally almost died multiple times riding in the back of those pieces of absolute garbage.
@@WilbanksUSMC death traps
I’m a former harrier engineer, so watched this very excited. It got even better when I saw myself in the video.
Dude that's awesome
Waaow
Can you share the time tag
What time in the video?
It is amazing what you see. I was watching some videos on submarines and saw two pictures of my late brother re-enlisting on the sub. These were taken in the mid sixties on a sub that actually served in the Pacific during WW2. Good job on the jet. I was stationed in Brunswick NAS and got to see one of these. I worked on something less exotic, a P-3B.
You must have worked in the factory in Kingston then...
Sir Tom Sopwith founded Hawker who developed the Harrier (with Siddeley) and he lived to see his planes deal with the Kaiser, Adolf, Benito and Hirohito and then the Argentine Junta in 1982. What a life.
EdMcF1: I saw your comment and looked up Sir Tom. Sopwith lived to 101 years, he was lucky when and where he was born, but did he ever make the most of his time on earth. A guy who met the Wright brothers was still around to work on jet aircraft in the late 1970s. Amazing.
A biographics on sir Tom Sopwith would be amazing Simon
Made some very famous planes too such as the camel
That's absolutely incredible.
Dunsfold airfield..... Surely the test pilot was the Stig.... Some say he has more RUclips channels than Simon and that if you ask him to cover a subject... He will. All we know is that we call him the Stig
Yeah that looks like its worth 7,000,000 Pepsi Points
This reference made me smile.
Ogbb
From the sounds of the video, Simon will not be liking your comment.
oh god
@@brettiup you know what he DOES like? People telling him he looks like Michael from Vsauce.
AM I RIGHT, PETER?
Seeing an aeroplane take off and land vertically is a sight I will never get tired of... It defines cool
Watching an F-35 hover was the most bizarre thing. It just doesn't look right
@@joshuapowell2675 "you're supposed to move in a line not stop on a dime!"
@@joshuapowell2675 And the F -35 uses a lot of ideas from the soviet VTOL , how unusual for America ))))
The technology for the VTOL version of the F35 came partly from, of all places, the Soviet Union. They'd designed a VTOL fighter plane that for reasons unknown never went past the testing stage, maybe because the USSR collapsed. Their jump-jet had that big fan right in the middle of the fuselage. Sometime in the 90s, if memory serves, Lockheed bought the patents for that vertical lift fan from the Russians, and the F35 got the big fan in the fuselage.
@@patrickscalia5088 Yes , the fan looks almost identical on the F35 as the Russian plane , did not know that Lockheed bought the patents though and very surprised that Russia did that
I was a US Marine ('87-'92), stationed at MCAS Cherry Point NC - attached to a Harrier Support Squadron, MAG-32. We serviced 5 Harrier Squadrons in the MAG. When I first got to Cherry Pt from Basic Training at Parris Island, I was checking into my duty station and heard a very loud noise in the sky. I looked up and saw a Harrier approaching the flightline coming in for landing. I'd never seen a plane fly so SLOW, almost as if levitating. I knew it was going to be a special assignment for my time in the Marine Corps. Amazing plane and the pilots who flew it had balls of steel. In real action, they flew very fast and very low. As soon as it was off the ground from a short TO they'd put the wheels up - less than 10' - 20' in the air, wheels up. The other branches' pilots flew with the wheels down until they were well in the air. Good times, then.
Semper fi..i did avionics for ace of spades but deployed with tigers 98-03
@@phettywappharmaceuticalsll8842 Semper Fi, DD. Ace of spades - I can't remember which sqdn that was (223, 231, 331, 542?), but I remember seeing it daily. I wanna say VMA-542 tho, unless they changed MAGs (possibly) or mascots (unlikely).....
Worked on this plane for 18 years. Loved and hated her so much!
Do tell! What was it like?
I would imagine the linkage just to vector the thrust is crazy.
I did ordnance on the Harrier for four years and can confirm: loved and hated her
@@parandiac I worked avionics on the P3s. There was a lot with all the radios, radar and sensors for finding submarines.
@@jamesengland7461 well I did a total of 9 deployments with various Harrier units from land based to boat dets. The best were boats. Watching a her launch off the boat fully loaded using only 750ft of the deck then coming back Winchester and landing vertical.
2:10 - Chapter 1 - S/VTOL
4:30 - Chapter 2 - NBMR-3
7:50 - Mid roll ads
9:05 - Chapter 3 - An engineering marvel
16:15 - Chapter 4 - Service
21:05 - Chapter 5 - Retirement
The Spanish Navy performed a mini tour of the British airshow circuit in 2019 and was the Harriers first time on the UK airshow scene for a decade. The pilots couldn't believe just how big it was for us to see a harrier again after so long they said it was a career highlight to bring the harrier home
Loved the Harrier. I saw them in combat a few times. The first was during the Gulf War. Long story short, we (3rd Battalion 6th Marines) were attacked by three or four Iraqi T-72s. Within minutes two Harriers streaked in and destroyed the tanks. During the air war over Kosovo I was a platoon sergeant on the USS Nassau and the embarked Harriers flew daily strikes. As a contractor I saw the Marines SPMAGTF CR use Harriers to pound ISIS. It was a great aircraft and a friend to the Marine grunt. It was always where you needed it to be.
That airfield was later used as the Top Gear test track. A Harrier flew the course in about half a minute. Compare that to Lewis Hamilton in a reasonably priced car at about one minute forty two seconds. Harrier may have been flown by The Stig. It started as an RCAF base in WWII. Canada!
nice lol
As an aviation buff, I love lots of aircraft, but I fell in love with the harrier after watching True Lies.
Fun fact: the Harrier in True Lies was a prop built for the film. In some shots it was hanging by a cable, in others it was in front of a green screen. The spinning turbine blades in the inlets were actually a CGI effect.
A great fun movie even beyond showcasing the Harrier.
"If I damage it, they can take it out of my pay."
At an air show , a harrier jet stopped & hovered at about 50 foot .. probably 100 foot in front of the crowd , then slowly spun round ... even 30+ years later i can still smell & feel the wash of heat from the exhausts .. truly stunning
Has anyone else noticed that since Simon started business blaze that all other vids on his other channels have now got a more causal tone with small blaze style comments which i think really improves the learning experience since it make its more entertaining to learn :)
Yes I have noticed that as well.
Blaze Simon is in control... He's like Agent Smith in the last Matrix film - taking over everything!!
Allegedly...
One April Fools day we need a full MegaProjects about AirWolf
Have they done the death star yet? Then that'll be one for the year after. :)
DUUUUDE! That was the first one that popped in to my head. He did have the Dyson's Sphere, so why not do another theoretical one on supersonic helicopters.
Airwolf vs Blue Thunder video
I can’t be the only one who just has their mind blown by how long aircraft remain in service. There’s jets and bombers and transporters and everything else that were designed and built in the 60’s and 70’s that are still being used today. Of course they’ve been updated and upgraded, but it’s still the same basic plane and that absolutely fascinates me and blows my mind. It’s just totally awesome and is a testament to the work that went in to the design and manufacturing. I love it.
Get to work on these every single day for work. Work inside, outside, and in the cockpit. Worked on them in the Marines and continue to work on them as a civilian now. I love the Harrier!
Where are you working on them as a civilian? And which Marine squadron did you serve with?
1:06 Holy crap, that's the Top Gear test track!
I was just about to say that, glad I checked the comments first lol.
Yes , between Horshan and Dorking, You can see it as you drive between the two places
I remember seeing one at an airshow when I was a kid and thinking, “This has got to be the best a jet will ever be.” Thank you Simon et al.
So happy megaprojects are covering VTOL it’s such a cool advancement in aeronautics
I remember the London to New York air race in 1969 and the iconic images of the Harrier taking off from the goods yard at Kings Cross station in central London, sweeping it clear of decades of dust and coal debris! It most certainly wouldn't be allowed today.
The Harrier was ahead of its time and remains an icon of late 50s British engineering excellence. Thank you for sharing this with us.
ENGLISH ELECTRIC LIGHTING deserves a Megaprojects episode ..
I served as the navigator on the USS BATAAN (LHD 5) in 2003, and our two Harrier squadrons attacked Iraq on the morning of 20 March 2003, not Afghanistan. We had VMA-223 (the Bulldogs) and VMA-542 (the Bulldogs) flying off our flight deck for 10 hours a day (LHDs do not have the number of flight deck crewmen needed for 24 hour operations like a CVN). Our late sister ship had the night shift. We were, for all intents and purposes, CV-5 and CV-6 for that six week period. That was the most intense and professionally rewarding tour in my 20 years of commissioned service. R/Lieutenant Commander, U.S. Navy (retired), proud crewmember of the Mighty Bataan!
That must've been an amazing time to be part of that crew., I can only imagine the intensity of the operations you were all involved in. USS Bataan, definitely an aircraft carrier!! You had more Harriers on board than HMS Hermes during the Falklands war. All the best from Scotland Commander.
@@jacksprat9172 Thanks, mate! It was indeed intense, the most intense tour in my Navy career.
What a fantastic aircraft, it certainly stunned the Argies when they came up against them and wiped the floor with them in the Falklands War in '82.... Not one of the deployed Harriers was lost in air to air combat. Mr Ralph Hooper, we salute you!!🇬🇧🇬🇧✌✌
An all-time favourite of mine, but... they really should've stuck with "Kestrel." _Kestrels hover. It's like their entire thing._
Harrier was one of the finest jets in cold war era. It ruled the skies in Falklands conflict.
The Harrier is, in effect, the true successor to the Spitfire as the iconic British fighter aircraft and, considering when it was first constructed, a world-beater ...... and it was only through Governmental intransigence that it wasn't developed further
As long as you're willing to put the Gloster Meteor in between the Spitfire and the Harrier, I can agree. It may have just been beaten by the Me.262 into operation, but the Meteor was the world's first jet fighter, and would continue to serve for over a decade despite the immense speed at which jet fighter technology developed between the end of World War II and the late '50s.
The harrier was a strike aircraft rather than a fighter. So the mosquito is possibly the better comparison rather than the spitfire.
"You've got "Clearance, Clarence". "Roger, Roger". "What's our vector, Victor"?
Nice
The 💩's gonna hit the fan......
I remember seeing Harriers at air shows in the 1970's when I was a kid. They used to come to a complete stop, rotate, bow to the audience, then take off at 600mph. Still the most amazing plane I've ever seen in person.
In 1983, as a young Airman in the US Air Force, I was standing about 30 meters away from one of these as it took off, rotated around and flew into the distance. It was such a great aircraft.
I dont think I will ever stop being impressed by the amount of amazing aircraft that came from such a small country.
"Yes of course we're talking about the cold war again. Welcome to Megaprojects Ladies and Gentlemen.."
...In a nutshell
The gift that keeps on giving.
That's the thing about wars... they make megaprojects easier to justify.
Its a subject that will never run out of material for videos
Just be happy that it stayed a Cold War, I stood under a Soviet Recce Jet as it took photos of the NATO School in Oberammergau, I was literally underneath it and could clearly see the Hungarian Insignia.
By the time the German NATO Tornados turned up to chase him off he was probably back at his place swigging on a bottle of Vodka.
I lived there until the Iron Curtain came down and the Soviet jets used to come over 1982-83-84 etc almost every other day, or rather try to, this was the only successfull Jet that got so close that I saw it, whether any others broke through I have no idea, they were mostly intercepted over Austrian Airspace that was Neutral, or supposed to be.
The NATO jets came from Lager Lechfeld, just as they passed over the World Famous Wieskirche they hit the speed for their sonic booms, they flew over so often that the Church had to be renovated as the cracks were getting too big to be ignored.
Nobody remembers the real casualties of the Cold War, mostly car accidents or exercise deaths, the British Army had more casualities in Germany than they had in Northern Ireland!
"Helicopters, they don't go that fast" - Simon
Me: Airwolf theme music starts playing inside head... :D
As part to of your Cold War coverage you should do the M-16 program.
Just be sure to include the corruption, politics and the fact that it was a prime case of a second-rate product winning out through the corruption of 60's DC.
@@owenshebbeare2999 and don’t forget to smoke your daily dose of crack
@@owenshebbeare2999 you must be thinking of the M-14.
Maybe cover that the M-16 is not the AR-15 for the hoplophobes out there.
I think for a cool mega project is if you wanted to go over the development of HMS Dreadnought and Dreadnoughts in general. How they evolved into the modern idea of a battleship and how HMS Dreadnought caused a revolution in capitol ship development.
"Secret flight testing facility" So secret in fact that they shoot the most watched car show in the world there. Great job being tight-lipped, RAF.
"Nothing to see here. Look at those cars over there. Ooooh, shiny"
Oooooooooh
Anyway
It was secret back then not now XD
Some say that he got into the habit of wearing helmets while testing Harrier prototypes, and that he got kicked out of the RAF for only taxiing around the airfield at very high speeds.
All we know, he's called The Stig!
@@crowttubebot3075 I love you lol
A rather grand friend lived in a house on a hill overlooking the Dunsfold test airfield. You'd be sitting there having tea and then suddenly one of these things would rise above the trees at the bottom of the garden - it was magnificent! She didn't mind the noise she said, the spectacle was more than compensation.
"Perfect weather for a takeoff." - Surry air control
"But it's just above freezing and the fog is thick as soup sir!" - Surry provisional youth (trainee)
"Security! This child isn't British!" - S.A.C.
"CURSE YOU BRITS!" - S.P.Y.
Looked round an old Harrier in an Aircraft Museum once and found most of the cockpit held together with duct tape. Such a cool plane, and so British. Love it!
An airfield in Dunsfold, Surrey...
Seems familiar...
The best airstrip... In the world.
@@xKrispyx you are a genius
Some say the airfield is cursed by the sound of screeching tires and a mysterious figure in all white is seen in the shadows
In 1979 I was a young Marine Corporal with HMA-169 (AH-1T Cobras) at Camp Pendleton CA. Got sent out to 29 Palms (Stumps) for 2 weeks for a combined arms training exercise On the last day there we had a Marine Harrier buzz our area of the expeditionary airfield. He did a couple of passes and then hovered in front of us. He did a few slides left and right. As he was starting to lift up to leave we suddenly heard a loud cough and saw smoke and engine parts come out the nozzles. He dropped liked a stone, putting the front landing gear strut into the plane. Heard later it was the XO of the Harrier Squadron and that he had broken his nose when the plane hit. Never heard if he got into any trouble for showboating.
That moment you get a notification for a new episode and there are only 7 views but already 13 likes when you start watching. Man I love these video's!
Keep it up Simon!
the little chuckles i get from these are 10/10. dont' stop
"HARRIER FIGHTER 7,000,000 PEPSI POINTS."
I was a young conscript in the Royal Netherlands Army in 1988 when we were on an exercise on the Sennelager training ground of the British Army of the Rhine, when all of a sudden a frightening howling made us check our thermal gun sights and wonderuing what the heck that was. Suddenly large camouflage nets were being torn down and four Harrier Gr.3s of the RAF appeared and took off with rocket pods underwing. We were having a pause of operations nearby to refuel our armored fighting vehicles, when the Harriers returned, landed vertically and taxied to the camouflaged shelter. In the short moment the nets were down, we could see fuel trucks and ground personell running around with hoses and what I presumed must have been crewchiefs having a quick chat with the pilots, after which the Harriers turned around and went off for another sortie. Sadly we had to move on, but we were all dumbfounded to see how rapidly these aircraft could be rearmed and refueled. Been in love with that fighter ever since.
Unfortunately I learned that the entire Harrier Force was sold for spare parts to the USMC and that there are now no flying examples left in the UK. The Champion of the Falklands Campaign. The Invincible-class light carriers were also scrapped I was told. I hope that a few crowdfunded enthusiasts will bring back a pair of Harriers to the UK when the USMC, the Spanish Armada or the Italian Navy retires them and keep them in flying condition. The story of Britain without Harriers is unimaginable to me.
My good friend's dad was a USMC Harrier pilot during Desert Storm, one of very few.
I remember seeing the Harriers and Sea Harriers on the news during the Falklands War then later the US Marines using them in Desert Storm. They used to build them near my house. 👍
I'll NEVER forget the first time I saw a Harrier hovering in real life.
I'll NEVER forget how loud that darn thing was while hovering...
My father, a WW-2 pilot, worked a civilian job at the Norfolk naval airstation. One day in the early 70's, as I recall, he came home all excited and bursting his shirt
to tell us about something he saw out the window during the day. He had seen an airplane not only hovering but moving slightly backward appear from behind a hangar, which the Harrier could do. He had a hard time wrapping his head around
that one.
I saw one at an air show in Atlantic City a few years ago, it was stupid cool! Previously the closest I had gotten was flying the Hydra in GTA San Andreas.
That's my gal...used to work on the Pegasus 406/408. Beast of an engine. (18,000-24,000lbs of thrust and about 2 tons dry weight) (AV-8B II Plus). Theory of operation = suck, squeeze, bang, blow.
So cool that Simon gets super stoked abouyt such a greatly written intro to a video !
Love the harrier, my favorite military aircraft of the cold war. It was unusual and it served with distinction well beyond it's original design. = A job well done.
The marines called it VIFFING (Vectoring In Forward Flight). The small wing gave very high wing loading rendering the Harrier a bit of a clod in a maneuvering dog fight. Point those nozzles down though and oh baby WATCH THAT BITCH TIGHTEN UP in the turns!!!
Harrier VIFFing
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The bit at 22:16 where he describes the thinking behind the Harrier as "Even if we lose we're going to make sure you can't win." perfectly describes all of the cold war thinking. It truly was MAD, Mutually Assured Destruction, a perfect acronym if there ever was one.
A small correction about the operation of the jet: The two forward nozzles on the Harrier are technically not exhaust, they are compressor discharge. The Pegasus engine was built with a far larger compressor stage than it needed to be a pure turbojet, so not all of the air goes through the core (combustion section) of the engine. In fact about 60% of the total intake air was directed out of the forward two vectored thrust nozzles, after going through the initial low pressure compressor stage. The remaining 40% of the intake air is used by the core of the engine and subsequently out of the rear two vectored thrust nozzles.
In a way, the Pegasus engine was a fore-runner of modern turbo-fan engines, which create the majority of their thrust (up to 80% for high bypass ratio turbofans) from the giant fan at the front of the engine, which blows large volumes of air around the outside of the engine at a low velocity compared to the smaller volume, high velocity turbojet thrust created by the core. When a Harrier is in level flight with all the thrust nozzles directed backwards, the engine is essentially operating as a low bypass (1.5:1 ratio) turbofan.
About your final comments, Mankind as a whole always forgets history and the pain of certain historical events.
22:09 That's a Panavia Tornado, also a european jet with a cool name and one of my favourites. Possibly the subject for another video? :)
Keep up the good work, Simon!
I came to check for someone mentioning this before I did it myself. Absolutely love the Tonka - a sweep wing icon.
Proud to say that I worked on the HUD unit for various iterations of the mighty Harrier for almost 40 years.
Could you do a video on the F18 Super Hornet?
my grandad worked on the design of the harrier.. infinitely proud of him for that
The Top Gear track is the sight for one of the most iconic test flights....... .... ... ... In the world!
Harrier is like tomcat. A special aircraft that was too of it's class in it's time.
As a kid I grew up with my grandfather working at Rockwell as a engineer and he worked on the B-1 project while it was in development, I got to attend several different special air shows, like I got to see the F-117 before it was officially announced to the public. But the Hairier was and still is my absolute favorite jet ever, when I joined the U.S. Marine Corps it was amazing to watch them take off and seeing them in different theaters.
17:41 'the rest of the Royal Navy's fleet' there were two Harriers used, the Navy's Sea Harrier which was the British 'fighter' in the Falklands War, and the RAF Harriers, which were used in ground attack roles (much to the pilots chagrin).
In defense of English weather, I’ve been there four times and it was bright and sunny, each time. But to be fair, each park that we drove past had pale, shirtless people laying around all over the place. That made it charming, really. 🤣
Those parks were full of pale shirtless people because that was the first (and possibly the last) day of sun we'd seen that year... 🤣
Pale is the best way to be.
Megaprojects is peak RUclips and this episode is peak megaprojects!
It's amazing how different the harrier and f35 really are. They say a monkey can hover the f35. Where the harrier is like balancing it on a pencil.
that means the f35 has better engineering surely
Yes, we Americans do love our letters and numbers when it comes to identifying aircraft, almost as much as we love pronouncing aluminum correctly.
Alright! Love this jet!
I remember when I was a child making an Airfix model of the prototype P1127.
I also remember seeing a demonstration of a Harrier at an air show a few years later. The jet nozzles could rotate beyond vertically downwards, so while hovering the Harrier could actually fly slowly backwards. The demonstration was quite spectacular.
ah yes the beautiful harrier
Hell yes the harriers ,the only good part of the movie "Battlefield Earth" there was a scene in the movie where the humans were hovering in a building
You should do a video based on Fairchild Republic A-10 Warthog
That Lake District testing you talk of - we have it mainly in WALES! It's called the Mach Loop. Minutes before I started watching this video, 2x F15s flew over us.
If you ever wanted to make a movie of the Mach Loop, let me know. I've got great tips and places to get amazing photos and videos...
Be well!
Will you do the A10 warthog?
I second and third this. The A-10 is my favorite bird
Used to love watching the jets roar above us or behind us midway through a hike.
We were in kielder forest & were greeted by a training battalion. Chinooks with apc's underneath, tanks, trucks and so on. Was an amazing sight to see as a child.
I remember seeing the Harrier jet during an air show at the US Marine Corps Air Station in Cherry Point, NC USA back in the mid 1970's (I was 9 or 10 yrs old) when my mom was the journalist and editor of the Cherry Point newspaper.
I also remember seeing the "Blue Angels" flying squad there too.
The Windsock
Only £49.99 in war thunder 😂
It's 59.99
American*
@@ibDirtyGlasses ye
The harrier is an amazing jet and I love it so much. One of the biggest issues was the engines which were notorious for overheating
When America buys your aircraft you know you’ve done really good work.
In most cases the Harrier is used as a short take-off and vertical landing aircraft. It needs that short take-off to carry a decent munitions load, but once most of the fuel is burnt off it can land vertically and that works well on carriers as it can be speed-matched to the ship before landing.
My uncle was a Marine Corp Harrier pilot. He said that the guys referred to it as "The Microwave" for its propensity for killing its pilots.
*corps
Yea it wasn't mentioned that although the Harrier is a wonderful and innovative airplane it did kill a lot of pilots over the years. It is difficult to take-off and land vertically.
We called them "North Carolina lawn darts", lol.
@@garymartin9777 unfortunately the Marines didn't adopt the training methods the RAF used. Pilots were first given helicopter training before converting to Harriers. The RAF had a low accident rate by comparison.
@@alanjm1234 Most of the Marine pilots who transitioned to the AV-8A during the early stage of the program were rotary winged pilots. That changed.
The Harrier will always remain one of my fav aircraft of all time. As a kid it captured my imagination, it does everything an aircraft should be able to do in the mind if a kid who has no understanding of aerodynamics.
I've heard of the flipping issue before, and always wondered why they didn't install something like a grate on aircraft carries, lets the plane land but keeps the turbulence to a minimum?
That is a grate idea!
I have seen Harriers here in Seattle area, always a cool sight to see. Specifically up close like right over our heads when I visited Fort Casey a few years ago, one of the WW2 costal defenses in the area, they also have many big guns nicely preserved.
Without the Harrier there would be no F 35. Congress was told that F35 was an improved Harrier. Considering how expensive and late the F 35 has been, the Harrier was a better plane for its time. The Brits did a much better job managing its costs and development.
The performance difference is unreal, though. The Harrier, due to design constraints, has an unflattering thrust to weight ratio wjen saddled with ordance and fuel. The F-35B has the highest thrust engine in single-engine fighters.
And if it wasn't for lots of previous inventions there would have been no Harrier. As this video notes, the Harrier used innovations that were developed by NASA. Plus, there were other experimental VSTOL aircraft before the Harrier.
The F-35 is far superior in every respect, the harrier could only take off vertically with light loads, was very unstable in hover, had a very short range, & can fly at supersonic speed. the F-35 can lift more weapons and fuel, can hover hands off, has range comparable to conventional aircraft, and can fly at supersonic speeds. And it's light-years ahead of the harrier in it's avionics and electronic warfare capabilities. The harrier was awesome in it's day, but it's day ended in 1993.
"The Brits did a much better job managing its costs and development."
That would be the same Brits whose government refused to fund the development and had to rely instead on the US taxpayer providing a boat load of funding via the MWDP.
Worked on the A version Harrier in the early 1970s. In the Marine Corps. Latter I became A US Naval Aviator. Your brief video is pretty good with no glaring faults. In the early years engines were changed out every 250 hours of flight time,,, ouch.
Had a Harrier going slowly like what seemed like 50m over the roads I patrolled... They were stunning in sound and appearance. Loud af, but visually beautiful.
Another aircraft video 😌💖
When you see these buzzing a few hundred feet over your house every day for twenty years, they become less-and-less a megaproject and more-and-more a megaheadache. Still a pretty nice video. Seeing videos from my hometown was a plus!
One of the coolest Cold War designs, right behind the XB-70 and SR-71!
"We passed this thinking" has not aged well sadly :/
Finally. Someone else who says "freedom units". I also use "canadian cold units" for celsius
Conspiracy Theory: Simon is secretly paid by Pepsi
The Harrier is just about as iconic as jets come.
Every time someone describes imperial as "freedom units" Thomas Jefferson sheds a single tear.
'dumping speed'
I'll hit the breaks, and he'll fly right by.
I saw AV-8As on board USS Tripoli as a kid in 1979 on its port visit to Hobart in company with HMAS Melbourne. Harriers were in USMC use long before Desert Storm!
I miss working on AV8Bs. It's such a unique aircraft. A massive pain in the ass to fix, usually, but a fun challenge at the same time.
What, you don't like removing the F'n wing to get the engine out?
Lol
@@bbeen40 don't forget working underneath the aircraft with the gun pack installed. Oh that was so much fun.🤣
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You're right stocks are good but crypto is more profitable and a life changer.
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@@douglasjones8979 Can you explain inflation ? How does the whole Bitcoin thing work? I'm interested in it and I'm willing and ready to invest heavily in it but I'm gonna need an assistant from any trusted and productive professional
In 1979, while visiting the rellies in Bristol for the first time, I discovered the Bristol Industrial Museum had a Harrier engine "cut open" on display. Later during my stay, my uncle Brien took me to a show at Filton and I got to see an awesome display of the Harrier, and lots of private "backlot" stuff (a bloody hanger just FILLED with Concords!) thanks to my uncle working there as an engineer, and former test pilot.
"As the sun set on the Arabian sea on the morning of the 20th of March 2003" Top tier writing.
"Will not require runway, coming in vertically" can see why 1965's Thunderbirds saw VTOL as a thing of the future.