Harrier Jump Jet - Vertical Flight 

Never mind the spitfire,the Harrier has it all!

i'm gonna guess you never did maintenance on one? once you see its internals you'll curse the engineers, bleed and cry. but its still cool to look at.

@@josiahR125 wdym?

@@josiahR125 Yt send your comment to me after 2 years lol. No I have never worked on it, and I’m sure I’d not be happy to, but I understand why it is so jam packed.

It’s a very sexy aircraft

But didn't it have very good combat capabilities?

Very sad to see one of these rotting and vandalised in Cornwall.

So sad to see her go! An AMAZING jet without a doubt. My fave!! And to see her hover above water, up close and personal, is a sight I will NEVER forget. I was completely moved to tears, simply awestruck!! And the FA18 Hornet is a beautiful fighter as well. The scream it makes is fantastic!! I love military aircraft!

very true, in Fact in the iraq war, commanders refused to let it fly until serious pressure was piled on them and then, strictly NO VERTICAL flight allowed. That was in the end of the war. Harrier was great technology BUT little use for combat. Great only for spy movies.

@@paulrubens3048 You obviously never heard of the Falklands war, the Harrier played a key part in that :)

@@paulrubens3048 unless your air base gets bombed and it’s the only jet capable of taking off

@@paulrubens3048 "in Fact in the iraq war, commanders refused to let it fly until serious pressure was piled on them"(sic) Not true for the Marine Corps AV-8B fleet in either Desert Storm or OIF.

Thank you for your service sir.

I had a Poster of Cheryl Tiegs ! So HOT !

@@SnowTiger45 i had one of Samantha Fox . . . She turned out to be a lesbian , what a waste ! 👍😍

@@shanetheundertaker8474 I can't find a smiley face on my laptop but I'm laughing my head off

I thought the first flight was in 1967

@@Johnny-on-the-spot he means the first plane ever

@Count Vitehud VII so you should be. I'm proud to be British. The vulcan is best bomber.

All by himself?

Legend

Not much b-roll of the original Harrier - which would have never made it past the drafting table were it not for the US taxpayer funding via the MWDP after the Brits refused to provide the development money. Very little "British engineering" in the McDonnell Douglas redesign which resulted in the AV-8B since the UK abandoned the project from 1975-1981 returning only after the bulk of the work had been completed.

​@@AA-xo9uw...salty yank...all the yanks did was upgrade its software and fiddled about with the wings, still looks like the original Harrier to me with Pegasus engines...

@@AA-xo9uwsod off ! The only thing they put in it was a new radar system etc but the flight system had nothing to do with the USA as the Pegasus engine and VTOL system was always British

Yup! Most of us did too!

The F-35 is a dud. Over budget, behind schedule and beset by numerous technical problems. And to top it off, even the US military has expressed deep reservations about it, not to mention several countries who originally placed orders for it, have now cancelled those orders. It's a repeat of the disaster that was the F-111 saga in the 1960s.

@@EVISEH That issue has no comparison due they tried to get a cheaper F-14 by getting those F-111, F-111 still is a good jet but never so good as an F-14, they need to KNOW their roles, on the engineering behind each aircraft to properly cassify it. And that didnt exist yet... i have an own class system aswell amazing ideas on jet developments... but yeah its all on my mind. F-35 is one of the best hovers along with the Harrier. Let me explain why: First of all is the only one in world that can Hover & goes Supersonic at same time. It can perfect hovreing like a Butterfly, making it looks so light it can perfectly maneuver even better than a Harrier. Why is not better than a Harrier then? bcz it have not LAU Weapons or close support attacking style weapons like Clusters, etc. It hold and internal bay for lasing & EO Bombing, it have amazing range radar capable of taking down lot of Fighters. And its designed for Heavy bombing strikes to destroy big buildings from once just like an F-117. It may hold long range radar missiles aswell heavy bombs with massive destruction power and Maverick Missiles or any Ground Missile. Also SEAD Long Range Missiles ARM & ASM. The engineering behind is a masterpiece thats why is so expensive. But there was 2 and only 2 big mistakes on it: One is not having LAU and Close support weaponry and the second: To create Conventional F-35s using same structure. That was a big waste of basic structure design, bcz its special design is intended to hover, that was the expression of its designers. Its capable of big bombing, destroy Enemy Defenses Aswell taking down very important jetfighters aswelll the capacity to hide and take off from hidden special landing zones. And its internal Technology is amazing. The digital technology, etc. Actually every jet ambition from today's based on US & UK Jets. Regards!

Here Spain, got Typhoons, F-35, Harriers 2+, A-10 Warthogs, More Sea Harriers

@@EVISEH that is obviously biased if that was the case why is the Queen Elizabeth stocked up with F35s?

WartHog TFK NAh thats stovl Cuz it cant take off vertically n go into standard flight

we still using it. trying to get rid of it they're maintenance is borderline imposible half the time the engine kills its self and the harrier cant glide at all so it just drops.

Why do that when we have an F35?

@@Inkognito-ts4to Because i designed many items on the F35 inputs and outputs and because my cousin built the Harrier engines which are better than the F35 and the Harrier was built better and stronger than the F35 was in many critical regions of the aircraft.

Inkcognito7274 … F35 technology was developed in part from the Harrier and arguably wouldn’t be, without the Harrier. Also Rolls Royce are responsible for the design of the VTOL aspects of the F35 itself which illustrates the reliance on Harrier engineering.

You always hear yourself through your bones. And any outside sound source that can vibrate them. That's why the recording of your voice/sounds seem like it's not your voice when you listen to it as it lacks the sounds you hear internally :)

@@mmdirtyworkz you don't hear yourself 20 feet from a jet at full throttle

I know right??

maybe there is, but you will need a camera in another one of these or something to catch up

You'll be lucky to find one, while they could do it, the preferred means of operation was STOVL, or short take off and vertical landing, vertical take off in the Harrier means you're just using the power of the engine alone to generate lift which means the Harrier consumes a huge amount of fuel, which would severely limit the range of the aircraft, taking off using the wings to generate lift is much more efficient.

@@davidodonovan4982 oh ok got it.

There are plenty of videos of Harriers taking off vertically and hovering on RU-vid

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ygWDck6Fn4g.html

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Your name suggests it all

yeah thats what I always thought

“Harriers inbound!”

Gta 5

Harrier airstrike

we were ther e

Hydra

So what?

@@erichuang2553 means he has superman strength and just turned a multi million dollar jet into scrap metal?

彭诚 How do you know that? How would bending the nozzle down by hand deem the plane unusable?

@@legopachycephalosaurus6825 I didn't know that. That's why i am asking.

The UK was never good at engineering, especially in the aviation sphere. To be sure, it did produce some good aircraft, ie Lancaster, Spitfire, Mosquito, Hurricane, Viscount but for the most part and particularly after WW2, what was coming out of Britain was pure dross.

@@EVISEH Which country invented the first Jet Engine that ACTUALLY WORKED(including the Meteor)

So do I a more sleek design while still keeping the gimmicks could really deliver some punch

​@@maxparkhouse6850f35b?

Lier

@@cherylravennorman5876 Do not think so sport.Stanley Hooker built and designed engine etc.

Shut up.

US Marines call it: STO/VL... Short Take Off/Vertical Landing.

@@Ezees23 yes, that‘s basically because it can do both. Short or Vertical

@@darwinz7997 Yeah, I was in the US Marines and saw how they flew in actual combat ops. I worked in a support squadron supporting 5 squadrons of Harriers. Nothing compares to how they fly in real combat ops - air shows don't show how the plane can actually fly.

@@Ezees23 i know.

So what? not there to save the enviroment in the way you may think, but it may just save the enviroment you want to live in.

@@richardmorgan607 Age doesn't matter

@@richardmorgan607 WTF are you talking about?!