RARE AV-8B Harrier II Action: VMA-223 Training at NAF El Centro!
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- ✈️ Experience the dynamic operations of McDonnell-Douglas AV-8B Harrier II jets as Marine Attack Squadron 223 (VMA-223) takes to the skies at Naval Air Facility El Centro (NAF El Centro). This video captures the taxiing, takeoffs, and landings of these iconic V/STOL (Vertical/Short Takeoff and Landing) jets during their training sorties.
🚀 Based out of Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina, VMA-223 is honing their bombing skills at NAF El Centro, a premier training location for military units. The facility serves as a temporary homeport for squadrons conducting advanced training and is famously the winter training home of the Blue Angels.
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This video was filmed on February 8, 2022.
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Ex-RN Sea Harrier engineer here - just love that iconic Rolls-Royce Pegasus engine whine. Such a unique noise.
Sadly missed here in Europe. Only Spain and Italy operates these now. But the best harrier display came from the RAF & Royal navy.
Growing up down the road from Tustin Marine Helicopter Base off of Warner Ave, and as kids we use ride our bikes, Schwinn’s, Huffy’s and Derby’s to El Toro Air Base just to watch all the jets landing and taking off. The 60’s and 70’s were a great time to grow up in Orange County😎
I've never in my life seen a 2 seater harrier. That's cool lol
You gotta be joking !!
@@colintraveller dead serious. This is a literal first for me. The concept of a 2 seater harrier never even crossed my mind. And it's crazy cause I'm big into military aviation, and have been to multiple airshows
The word "training" should've given you a hint as to why there are two Harriers.
What year were you born
@@mikes7446 1994 lol
A 60 year old British fighter. Sold off before its time. A legend.
Wow, initial roll was impressive. These have some balls.
1:1 thrust to weight ratio will do that.
Love that 2 seat configuration - I'll bet those guys love flying that jet!
reminds me of my days as MMCO at VMA-513 on the flight line at MCAS Yuma. Love that Pegasus whine.
I launched Harriers off the flight deck for years but never came across one like these, very cool
Man, the TAV-8B looks so funky! Great video!
Thank you for watching!
BEST looking Harrier I've ever seen. That 2 seat configuration is awesome.
You must be joking lol this version is ugly as fuck
Que cosa tan brutal debe de ser verlos todavía en acción
Love the Harrier… always thought the dual seat versions looked like they suffered from Hydrocephalus.
😂
Superb photography with gorgious details and background
Glad you liked it!
I love the look of the trainer version of the harrier
Yes i wait almost 3 years for this video so a epic video
Good to see these still in use.
What a fantastic machine, to think when that was designed and built amazing... Showed it's worth in the Falklands conflict 😍👍🏻
I worked on TAV8A in the 80s at Cherry Point VMAT203
Quite impressive... It's always been my dream to fly one of these...
My welding on the Pegasus ducting.
Awesome piece of kit.
Pk33. Futuristic material.
Those were my old stomping grounds from 2004-2007. Great videos. I would always see vehicles set up to catch the action on the other side of the fence line.
First time I’ve seen a two seater AV-8B
They rarely fly them
It’s the trainer harrier TAV-8B
Avión tan feo Sola porrajjjj
What a day at El Centro!!
Gotta hand it too those brits.. This was tech they was playing with in the 1960s, started with the kestrel that then evolved into the harrier ... paved the way for the f35 B, minus our unmatched stealth tech of course 😊
Harriers were terrifying in MW2!! Even more scary looking in RL😂🫣
Great video of VMA-223 Bulldogs.I remember when the were flying the A-4M Skyhawks.The twin seat Harriers are sure different,first time I saw them.
Looking forward to seeing more Jet training
Who would have thought these aircraft are still better than the F35b
I noticed the signature move from the backseater during landing 😂
A Really Great Video!! Thanks!!! from Italy:)
Thank you very much!
Well, I was stationed at MCAS Yuma for 2 1/2 years and we had three squatters of Harriers there and I don't remember ever seeing a two seater either. Kind of funky looking kind of cool at the same time.
Nice to see those T-45s back in service. They were grounded for a while. Alot of bitchin' activity!!!!!! Thanks!!!!!!!
Thank you for video. Watching from Indonesia in South East Asia.
Thanks for watching!
진정한 수직 이착륙기 너무 멋지고 대단합니다. 제발 단종시키지말고 계속 업그레이드해서 나왔으면 합니다.
Loved my time there in 83 Go Navy 🇺🇸👍 VT-21
The F-35 will NEVER be able to look as good as the AV-8B in VSTOL !!
Looks won't keep you alive in air combat.
@@kenmtb If you're in combat while hovering in either aircraft, you're doing it wrong.
Naval aviation!! T-45 Goshawks
The dhortest take off ever, such balance. Absolute love.
Thats the funniest looking harrier I have ever seen😂
I was stationed at MCAS Cherry Point. VMA -223 is just getting these two seat Harriers. They used to be part of VMAT-203 the Harrier training squadron. They just deactivated them and the last harrier pilots are going through training but could be graduated from the last time I checked. So these two seaters are going away soon. Sorry folks.
I can't be the only one who only saw a mother duck watching her ducklings fly for the first time. I'm going back to bed now.
What an incredible take off.... It's sad to know they will be retired very soon
Wooooooow,sho😅 distance to take off.😮
Awesome.. and the British had a 2 seat Harrier.
Excellent British aviation, Harriers and Hawks ,nice, glad to see you boys putting them to good use, enjoy!.
McDonnell Douglas TAV-8Bs & AV-8Bs built in St. Louis. T-45 production was split between Long Beach, St. Louis, Samlesbury and Brough.
Hermoso avión..
Original VSTOL Awesome jet 😊
300 - 400 still flying for the core , army
Harrier IIs, Goshawks and Super Hornets, the jets McDonnell Douglas built, :Happy to see Harriers still in operation.
Sorry for the lack of knowledge there, but the Goshawks are British built versions of our own hawk trainers but with modifications for USA use. The harrier too is a development of the Harrier mks 1to9 British designed and built but used by your own marine corps as Harrier ones.
The Hornets are of course McDonnell built and very nice too.
@splinter5352 Yes, the Harrier and Hawk are British designed and built. The Goshawk was a US adaptation built for the Navy and the Harrier II was a collaboration between US and UK, I like the beefed up Hawk into the Goshawk and the Harrier is legendary, it was retired from RAF too soon, I'm glad the US Marines still use them.
@@delten-eleven1910 AV-8B was built by McDonnell Douglas in St. Louis, Missouri. The AV-8B, officially the "Harrier II", is an American redesign and upgrade to the original Hawker Harrier, and the two aircraft are very different. Look up photos of AV-8A vs. AV-8B. British Aerospace was a subcontractor on the Harrier II, only building certain subassemblies. The T-45 was a joint project between MDD and BAe.
@@splinter5352 Actually the majority of the USN Goshawk was built McDonnell Douglas and components were made by BAe in the UK with final assembly out of MD's St. Louis facility.
I saw this on radar!
A magical bird to my way of thinking when it first came out. Great video. Thanks.
Legend
Awesome 👌 How many Hard Points are on this Harrier ? Just Wondering what it can Carry Munitions ,Ordinance In Battle ,? Is it used for Air Support ,and Ground Support ?
The core engine of the Bristol Pegasus was the Bristol Orpheus which powered the Gnat. Never seen a Harrier but I did see a Kestral at the RR Filton works while going past on the bus. The fin had been patched up so it must have had an accident.
This Kestrel with a big head plume has me talking in a David Attenborough voice
Love you too my Indian National army.
Em 10 dias em torno da esfera terrestre
Isso que é uma verdadeira máquina de guerra
All the Marines that flew this Aircraft> Were Crafted.
Awwwww look at those cute little bomblets...😎
I did not know the marines still used harriers. never see them around /miramar anymore
Awesome
Great quality for a " weird" plane 😂 What camera are you using ?
When was this filmed?
Hi. It was filmed in February 2022.
Now it's time for the 2 seater a10🤣
Succes la călcat norii la plafon superior da
When did they change from NAS?
Hey, this fighter jet where it's engine?🤔
Top Drawer
В варианте учебно - боевого самолета Хариер еще красивее! Великолепный самолет! Восхитительная техника.
Are these aircraft carrying BLU109's...? Bunker Busters?
Oau ce decolare super
Aerodinâmica Cruzeiro volta ao mundo com gasolina azul azul
Vertical takeoff, Sport model of 2 seaters?
wow
Marine Corps Aviation
Take off in six seconds from a standstill?
How is energy made today ? Why am I out of energy today ? What is today the world's main energy source ? What are the different types of energy today ?
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لا اله الا انت
Its a training version
If the Harrier is a girl I would marry her.
Such class and sofisrication. It is just art. So beautiful, who cares about the F35.
The Harrier us a bit geavy though, but yiu can nit harry uo nature. It just dies what its best at.
minute 8:51 front flat tire?
How come they don't make twin seat f35s.
Maintenance costs$? Otherwise vertical takeoff et landing as 2 seaters flying Automobile$.
This is the mark 52 hawker sidley harrier aircraft. The two-seater was built specifically to showcase its capability to foreign countries so it could sell. It was built and designed as a two-seater to showcase itself
VMA-223 Chu Lai 68-69 2:51
🎉😂wow❤😊nice✌️🤞🤘🏾🤙👈👍👍🙏👏👏🙏👀😊
HARRIER = SU 25
Ah yes, the old T-bird Harrier, a once common sight around Havelock, North Carolina. Now an endangered species.
hehe big head harrier
Valle imperial impe x3
Harrier 2 looks cooler!
Вот это настоящий властелин неба - взлетает и садится как орёл!
❤🎉😊
I worked with guys from MacAir. Calledl them junk jets.
Wasserkopf😂😂😂
The US has too much money keeping such an obsolete air raft flying. The Harrier was hot in the 80s. Now its just a pilot killer.
F-35B isn't much better.
Pesawat jet gta 😂
Zindagi
Sold of way too early.........We have idiots in charge.