AV-8B Harrier II Showing the Insane Jump on Aircraft Carrier

[@felixalbion]

I am a Brit and remember years ago a Harrier flying over the sea had a fuel leak problem and could not make it back to land. The RAF pilot spotted a small cargo ship and landed the Harrier on top of a shipping container on the ship. If I remember correctly they discovered afterwards that he only had seconds of fuel left.

[@starrlynn2523]

Alraigo Incident

[@James_Edward59]

30 seconds left I believe

[@starrlynn2523]

@@strikeballs7653 English, dude, English.

[@ericafrenk6747]

Wow! That’s incredible! I’m surprised I haven’t seen this in a movie yet.,

[@jamess7140]

I remember being up at Otterburn with Army Cadets and seeing one of these land in a clearing barely bigger than the plane.

[@susanfanning9480]

I'm an old lady in Alaska and I'm so impressed. This is from like STAR Trek to me. My late husband and I had a 172 Cessna that would get up to 80 miles an hour with good wind. This is incredible and I am very proud of you all.

[@Synic08]

These planes are like 30-40 years old.

[@samwoj]

@@Synic08 bro shes from alaska and probably has just finally cut her way out of the wilderness give her some slack... probably had to kill a bear or some shit too you never know.

[@cpg0311]

British invented and saw effective active service in the south atlantic commanding the skies in dog fights with the Argentine airforce.

[@susanfanning9480]

@@Synic08 Better than that . This plane was a 1964 Special Edition. Complete with ash trays and carpet. Only 1 owner when we bought in 2010. We took the carpet out so we could fly moose meat back to Kotzebue without a mess. Glorious days😁👍

[@devinthierault]

​@@susanfanning9480now that right there is the most Alaskan thing I'll read all day

[@wendypetersen7529]

The pilots who work on Carriers have my absolute respect. How they manage to land in the dark in rough weather when the ship is rising and falling with the waves is just incomprehensible to me, especially when there are planes behind them, so they have to get it right the first time. They are amazing pilots.

[@eq2092]

The ship is also moving forward as well as rocking left to right as well as forward and aft.

[@StuartCuthbertson]

Not disagreeing with the core point, but aircraft carriers have some insane levels of gyroscopic stabilization to make the flight deck as stable as possible. And I imagine there's some technology onboard the planes too to help to an extent.

[@cleareyesfullheart1]

​@@Dark_side9999Ah, turbulence, what fun 🙄

[@nothingissimplewithlloyd]

Most of them don’t qualify. That has to be really hard on you to get all that training and then not qualify.

[@nothingissimplewithlloyd]

@@StuartCuthbertsonthese days sure. But people have been doing this since before there were any computers on the planes.

[@chacanni]

Still to this day, the loudest noise I've ever encountered. Standing in the hanger deck with an AV-8 landing above us. You can't yell loud enough to someone standing next to you for them to understand what you're saying. All conversations are put on pause until that Harrier touches down. Insane amount of power coming out those thrusters.

[@peterbothwell9005]

Perfect British engineering. Nice to see the US still keeping the aircraft going.

[@jerapornheetchoui9347]

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[@andylec5879]

Unfortunately we don't have much industry left, and the Gov't are busy finishing the rest of it off. I'm proud what we achieved back in the day.

[@casey360360]

No one done VTOL like the Harrier since. The Russians tried and the result, the Yak-38, was a joke

[@ryansta]

@@casey360360 Have a look at the Yak - 141 and read about it, it may surprise you some.

[@AndrewVSmith10]

I was a yellow shirt on the USS Tripoli (LPH-10, 1990-1994) and got to launch some of these. Powerful aircraft. Fun times.

[@Yorktown-pb8bd]

I was a ABH on the Nassau in the early 1980s

[@adventurefuel5172]

My father worked on the US adaptation of the Harrier at Bendix in the 60s. Being a black man in aerospace back then he did some amazing things. He would tell me real stories like the movie “Hidden Figures”.

[@andrewdking]

Bendix, I remember that Co name. Were once a competitor to us back in the day. Did they make electrical generating systems ?

[@beefsmusicchannel5404]

I used to love watching a Harrier fly backwards, forwards, up, down, sideways, hover and bow of course, happy days

[@DaDonSez]

In 1971 we started the AV8A squadron VMA-513 in Beaufort South Carolina! What a beast of an aircraft! We would practice carrier landings and take offs in rhe Atlantic on the USS GUAM. What a experience that was!!

[@Ezees23]

Hey, I was stationed at MCAS Cherry Point - not too awfully far from there. Of course, I'd graduated from MCRD Parris Island just a few years earlier. Semper Fi, Devil Dog.....

[@M1N1Girl007]

My father was on the USS Enterprise in the 60s when he was only 18. He did 3 tours in Vietnam. I fell in love with this jet from his picture slides and stories of the Harrier. I miss him so much. Semper Fi Dad! And thank you for your service! I appreciate all those that are serving and have served as well. Happy 4th !

[@M1N1Girl007]

Thank him for his service!@@What11235

[@lowa1436]

Thank you for you lie no one believe

[@petemason57]

The Harrier will always be my favorite aircraft.

[@planemod8399]

Hi Pete

[@petemason57]

@@planemod8399 Hi buddy

[@sammencia7945]

55 year old technology. Stunning.

[@ShiftyGeeza]

While there may be faster and more well equipped aircraft, watching a Harrier VTOL aircraft take off and land is like watching an ASMR clip. Mesmerising and hypnotic and gives me goosebumps every single time. Beautiful.

[@mladensekulic2360]

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[@agedflier9129]

If you get a chance watch some of the news clips taken during the Argentina War. That is where it proved itself.

[@user-rw9mp2ed3c]

I was a 6095 Av8b Airframes Mechanic stationed at Mcas Cherry Pt. Vmat-203 from 88 to 91. Those was some good times

[@robertdeforge6871]

I’ve got 2500 hours in this aircraft. It was a blast to fly. Was in the the Ace of Spades (VMA-231) twice……the first time we went to Desert Storm.

[@francismarion4450]

Are they normally deployed from Carriers?

[@robertdeforge6871]

@@francismarion4450 they are deployed on big deck amphibs. LHA/LHD type ships. No catapults required. 😎

[@DaNinja60]

@@robertdeforge6871 I flew a lot of computer combat sims and the Harrier was one of my favorites. I used to love changing the thrust vector in combat to tighten a turn. My hats off to you since I know I would have been toast in combat. Besides, I hate heights. 😂

[@francismarion4450]

@@robertdeforge6871 Very cool, thanks. My Dad was on a Destroyer in Vietnam. I built a Harrier model when i was a kid and I was never sure how they were typically deployed.

[@stanleybroniszewsky8538]

I envy you.

[@caz3502]

The most awesome, jaw dropping aircraft EVER. I saw it years ago at RAF Cosford Air show and was speechless when it hovered in front of us, bowed and off it went.

[@eddiebrr3]

Wait till you experience a TR3B!

[@JozefGottwald]

A@@aaaaaa

[@РадомирАрсенович]

Ты ещё не знаешь ЯК 141

[@ernestomontemayor5855]

The first time I saw this type of aircraft was when I was station at the MCAS cherry point, NC. 1982.The demonstration they displayed was incredible. Awesome aircraft. As an Aircraft Firefighter and Rescue Specialist MOS 7051. My knowledge and experience with all types of Aircrafts. The Harrier was my favorite of all. The amazing things it does will blow you out of your socks. I salute all Military branches. But only one I can say, Semper Fi Marines. Greetings from Santa Rosa, Texas. GySgt Montemayor Retired USMC. [ 77-97].

[@MuhammadTahirMuhammadBashir]

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[@MuhammadTahirMuhammadBashir]

Hi9

[@patrickingalls5954]

I worked on the AV8A and AV8C models.(modified A- models) VMA-542, Cherry Point, N.Carolina. 1978-1982. Harriers kick ass!!!

[@BagongEs87-jk2rh]

SENiN-1-septembeR-2027

[@osevenninefiver]

HMLA 467. AH/UH Those Harriers were still there, and I always wondered why they were so slow. As soon as I got my hands on a "realistic" simulator, I realized fairly quickly "fun" is not how that works.. considering the points of vectored thrust, leverage, weight of the aircraft and the air itself holding the wings up and down at the same time. It was a challenge, so I naturally got the hang of it. It's what we do, we're Marines; we rage-win. Lots of badassery required and whimsical IQ. I just put the controller down and respected the pilots. For reasons, we chose them over another Tomahawk. There are some places we need to get a little faster, but this isn't as quick as it needs to be for a scramble take-off. Granted, hardly anything is when they have ordnance. Helicopters need runways, too. The F-35 definitely is a charmer when their up, but they have their own unique aerodynamic problems with the ground, too. You can't exactly turn a missile in to a VTOL, and then back in to a missile, so there's this.

[@niradnagrom2356]

One of the greatest military planes ever produced; a bomber and a fighter combined - brutish workhorse!

[@junioralsept9335]

Those are badass jets... Can land and take off almost anywhere.. There my favorite plane...

[@brianjones4026]

British !!

[@SunofYork]

"They're"

[@evelynestes1640]

I will never forget the first time I saw a Harier it was at a Virginia Beach airship! Jacob and I went... I cried it thrilled me to the point of tears! I absolutely love this machine and it’s is the absolute most thrilling jet in the air!!!

[@Насриеванилуфар-х3х]

Это вы ещё русские самолеты не видели!

[@nashvillelewis-jones5666]

Absolutely amazing aircraft. I never get tired of viewing them. I'd love to ride in one.

[@leokimvideo]

An aircraft so incredibly designed it helped James Dyson make the best vacuum cleaners in the world.

[@thenibblershow5305]

Love Ur channel

[@tonytwenties4764]

He made the shark?? Interesting

[@minwookim3316]

You mean leaf blower?😂

[@BobRooney290]

this jet was formidable back in it's prime. now it's just an old clunker. there's no way it can take on completely agile drones that can do heavy G's on top of stealth tech.

[@user-oo8xp2rf1k]

Yes that's true Dyson did learn from this technolgy : and you'll also notice that Harriers are never launched from a site that has a rug with a fringe. ;-)

[@BasJon]

A true British master piece right there, first made and devolped in england by Hawker Siddeley.

[@M3PH11]

shame that one has GE engines and not rolls royce ones.

[@stix562]

Hawker Hurricane too .. .. you know they had them ready for WWII - as the Russians were joined up with Hitler .. Just wondering what why Russia was not on the target list since they too invaded Poland at the same time as Adolf .. Nice Technology ..

[@timmo491]

Developed at Hawker Siddeley's airfield in Woodford. There's now a new housing estate there with a museum and a Vulcan aircraft on display outside. My brother in law lives there go visit folks.

[@MrJedimedic]

I’ve always thought it to be one of the coolest looking jets.

[@thaivireak6891]

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[@kennethbrugonone2359]

Had the pleasure of watching a couple of these run training exersizes over and next to my camp while on a field op. Cool as hell...until you want to sleep in your tent lol. They are LOUD

[@davidjenkins1958]

I like this more than the F35B.

[@juangarcia2467]

I was lucky enough to see these when I was in the marine corps and we'd go to mcas cherry point for an op, seeing these take off vertically in real life is totally awesome, hands down my most favorite fighter jet.

[@4manchira]

How ever better aircraft has come, I just love the sea Harriers ...best bird on the deck. ❤

[@khalgkiyani3412]

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[@khalgkiyani3412]

اوج تکنولوژی

[@margeanblake4356]

Always impressive and incredible to watch. So much respect to the skills of these pilots!

[@flipperdale51]

The Harrier, when hovering, always appears to me like a little spaceship.

[@rivolibioscoop]

I ❤ HARRIERS, The reason for enforcing peace is to see the Harrier back home in annual air show.

[@kevin-parratt-artist]

These are modified British aircraft, designed by Hawker. Eventually built in the US to their own requirements. Just as the P51 Mustang only became an effective fighter when powered by the Rolls Royce Merlin engine. It, too, was then built under licence by the Packard company. Just thought you should know that.

[@oldjarhead386]

I spent a career fixing these jets starting with the original AV-8A. Look at the AV-8A and AV-8C against the AV-8B. Other than the basic engine format there is nothing left from the original jet. The original A version was a death trap to fly and a nightmare to maintain. The C was still base A with mainly some upgraded avionics to make it more compatible with the A-4M for better interoperability and maintenance. Do some research on how dangerous the original version were. Just being near the flight line at MCAS Cherry Point during the 70s and early 80s was dangerous! We even had one crash inverted during a hover, travel a 1/4 mile crash thru a hanger taking out aircraft and crashing into a full parking lot. My father in law was the crash crew fire chief at the time. He started calling the pilots crispy critters. The stories are plentiful. I was also on the first NATO deployments of AV-8As on a LPH for a North Atlantic NATO exercise. t the end of the cruise we barely had airplanes that could fly. The engines didn’t last and parts were hard to get. Even the flight control system had a hard time dealing with the aircraft sitting on the desk. Nobody misses the British versions.

[@roystonwright6038]

They crashed because the yank pilots didn't use the correct procedure for operating the aircraft. Very few crashes when used by the British.

[@BedtimeStoriesChannel]

@@oldjarhead386 I don't think you realise that there were three British variants. The original Hawker Siddley Harrier, The Harrier II and the Sea Harrier. The Sea Harrier was developed directly from the original and was easily the best and most combat proven of all Harriers, including the AV-8B. Sorry, but without the original Harrier, there would be no AV-8B and, in any case, the Brits were heavily involved in the development of the AV-8B.

[@adriangoodrich4306]

Not really the full story, though? The AV-8B/Harrier II was a joint McDonnell Douglas/Hawker Siddeley (later BAe Systems) project, developing the all-British Harrier 1/AV-8A into a much more capable aircraft. McDonnell Douglas had design and production lead, with BAe as prime subcontractor, since (as has plagued British aircraft development since the war) the US had much deeper pockets and marginally less-useless governments. The British Harrier IIs (with many significant differences to the AV-8B) were all built in England, with McDonnell Douglas as prime subcontractor. The British scrapped their own plans for an advanced Harrier through lack of funding and numbers. The Sea Harrier, so dominant in the Falklands, was an all-British development of the Harrier 1. The Pegasus engine though, like the Merlin, was totally British and all engines for all versions were built in the UK.

[@TheGojodfrey]

​@@roystonwright6038same with the Armstrong MT500, in testing lots of accidents and misuse so Harley put a disc brake on it an electric start and went from 500 to 350, this reduced the carrying capacity and actually degraded the use of it.

[@sarfarazahmed2022]

Salute to British engineers, remarkable technology..

[@g8ymw]

Certainly was. I still don't know why we pensioned them off before the F35B was sorted. Btw I cannot call them Lightnings because they have no connection with that over-and-under shotgun with a cockpit grafted on it. The last HMS Ark Royal sailing without an air arm was disappointing to say the least

[@jamesmccoll4211]

Yeah, pity we Dave it away

[@jamesmccoll4211]

Gave not Dave😂

[@neilfoster814]

Pity the tight UK government wouldn't pay the £475.00 to turn it into the badass plane that the Americans have. Talk about 'dropping the ball'. Same story with jet engine, invented by the British, then given away to anyone who wanted it.

[@stubstoo6331]

@@g8ymw actually American engineers . The British left the program in1975 the Americans repowered and designed a new wing that made the jet what it is today. The British rejoined the project in 1980, and sold off their share McDonnell Douglas in 2014 . That's why U.S Marines still fly the super harrier on their carriers.

[@thomasanglemyer6758]

Kudos to your father, on his contribution to two fine aircraft!

[@johnstonier6909]

You’ll never beat the harrier Unbelievable machine 👍

[@HO-bndk]

Also responsible for killing more pilots in accidents than any other service aircraft. High time they were all scrapped.

[@graememiller3798]

Any air superiority fighter will beat a Harrier any day of the week , sorry....

[@paulgreen9618]

​@@graememiller3798Ridiculous comment.

[@Themonkeyman-f6n]

F-104?​@@HO-bndk

[@StefanGalia]

@@Themonkeyman-f6n What do you expect from a aircraft when they forget to finish making the tips of the wings? 🤣

[@phillipeggensh]

Incredible.. awesome...combining both rotary and fixed wing flying.

[@SunofYork]

Rotary ?

[@GazAce]

Wow man oh man that shot as the blast from all the thrust hitting the ocean's surface. Incredible design & vision from well over 50 years ago, like science fiction back then. Thanks for posting that awesome vid 🙏👌👏

[@contingency9]

An example of British ingenuity and design with the Rolls Royce engine a sublime combination.

[@majorlaff8682]

While the British were ingeniously designing and building this, some countries were struggling to build mud huts with grass rooves.

[@russram210]

USA 🇺🇸 USA -- boo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@sergeigulunov3489]

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[@BedtimeStoriesChannel]

@@russram210 It's a British aircraft, dude.

[@trevorhoward7682]

In 1970 I was in a British Royal Engineers troop laying landing pads and building camouflage hides in West Germany - as was - for the original Harrier squadron of the Royal Air Force. From the almost tiny originals to these amazing aircraft is fascinating to see.

[@worldofthesupernatural]

I never get used to the way this thing moves. So freaky!😮❤

[@angusclark8330]

You should have seen the Avro Vulcan in its heyday. Even just hearing it... Or the English Electric Lightning. Ye Gods, the noise! And they would take off almost vertically.. like an F22, only fifty years earlier.

[@lisareitzel7501]

Love watching Harriers take off and land vertically at air shows. They are so cool. Would love a ride in one but probably couldn't handle it physically now that I'm 70 yrs. old!!😊

[@justiceforall4628]

Seeing a Harrier, it brings back memory in my younger days....WTI....ring a bell...

[@owlandbear1220]

MCAS Yuma? I deployed there for WTI in '79 from MCAS Cherry Point. H&MS-32 Ordnance. Our USMC Harrier community was small and tight.

[@rccarhobbytoy]

The Best 🎉

[@sleeve8651]

My experience being near a Harrier jump-jet, defies what I have read about their capabilities ! I was drawn here by the Thumb nail, depicting a Harrier blasting off nearly vertically ! I was in the U.S.M.C. on maneuvers, and we were operating with various support vehicles, the Harrier being one ! I was positioned in some tall Elephant grass, for lack of a better explanation, and I don't remember seeing the plane land, so it very well was on the ground, when I took up position near it ! Too, I just read that the Marines didn't start using Harriers until long after my story ? As this was in the late 70's ! So unless the Navy was flying support for us then, I can't explain this ? Anyway after some time setting, the aircraft engine began to start and pretty quickly lifted into the air, did a slow turn to the right of my position, tilted the nose in an upward looking position and throttled up and blasted off like a rocket, nearly straight up ! Until today, I just always thought that the pilot engaged the afterburner, but today I read a post from a guy claiming to be a Flight instructor, and in his description, claimed the plane has no Afterburner ? But to someone like me, especially at that time, I knew very little about this Aircraft. But I know my experience ! So now I wonder if I saw the capability of this Aircraft that wasn't disclosed, or isn't widely spoken of ? To be honest, I have always thought that was one of the coolest things ever ! But now these videos have me questioning my own memories ! And I have carried this with me, more than 40 years ! Weird... ! Lol !

[@Catinthehackmatrix]

I think it does get red on the engines rear exhaust, I only know from flying in DCS world, lol.. You can fly it in the simulators.. Thanks for serving Salute ~

[@sjamwal3199]

Salute to the Pilot

[@MnKo.Aviation2334]

THE THUMBNAIL LIEED

[@pyrettablaze1226]

Absolutely love this aircraft! When my ex was in the Marines we were stationed at MCAS Cherry Point. He was actually in the squadron that is represented by the Ace of Spades. It was so cool to be able to see these every day!

[@pyrettablaze1226]

@@Nano-Thought Not a snowball’s chance in hell!🤣

[@mr.ks.6499]

So you left him? Now he is your y? Or z

[@pyrettablaze1226]

@@mr.ks.6499 only x! Lol

[@mr.ks.6499]

@@pyrettablaze1226 I meant your are with someone else now

[@pyrettablaze1226]

@@mr.ks.6499 yep! Not married though.😂

[@lauriedavies172]

We experienced the down thrust first hand of the British Harrier jump jet at the British Grand Prix 1980. It drifted across from the woodland briefly, alongside Druid's, and uplifted into the air an amazing amount of Marlboro cigarettes from their stand as the criwd of us hit the deck! Good times.

[@wendypetersen7529]

These have to be the noisiest planes on the planet.

[@markwebster4883]

the harrier to this day is a remarcable machine

[@annewren8845]

My dad used to work at DeHavalands constructing aircraft back in the 60s, in Portsmouth UK. The company was then taken over by Hawker Siddley, who went on to produce the Harrier Jump Jets. It’s amazing to see how this plane has been adapted for modern warfare. I know my dad would be extremely proud to see this clip too!

[@avikotecha8336]

Best of British Always 🎉​@@annewren8845

[@DaNinja60]

Played it years ago as a flight simulator on my computer. Still one of my favorite aircraft.

[@NagarajanDuraiswamy]

😅

[@mymydelilah]

These are all skilled workers & elite pilots...breathtaking to watch... stay safe guys...

[@andrewdking]

I designed a short adaptor wiring harness for the AV-8B, so to connect our upgraded electrical generator to the existing airframe wiring harness. I remember using a articulated clamp design I based upon Canon Cameras heavy telephoto lens tripod mounting ring I happened to own. It worked a treat 😁

[@ИгорьСагдеев-ъ3ь]

В СССР отказались в 60 году от вертикального взлета, наверно тогда уже знали, что авианосец куча металлолома

[@andrewdking]

@@ИгорьСагдеев-ъ3ь I don't know what you have said. Looks Russian, but no option to translate or to copy into an independent translator. I suspect you will have the same problem with this reply 🤷

[@andrewdking]

@@ИгорьСагдеев-ъ3ь Ok got your translation now as : In the USSR, vertical take-off was abandoned in 60, they probably already knew then that the aircraft carrier was a pile of scrap metal. Well, our Harriers should never have been taken out of service, a brilliant aircraft.

[@bikechainmic]

@@ИгорьСагдеев-ъ3ь The difference was the Harrier worked, your rip off didnt! The harriers for Navy use came later...but at least we can operate Aircraft Carrier, wheras ruzzia just stunk the place out with theres!

[@emily-ph8wd]

​@@andrewdking You're right, the sensible choice is the right one

[@F35_JSF]

To set things straight. The F35B STOVL has been a part of the US military arsenal for years now. STOVL - Short Take Off Vertical Landing. The Harrier is no longer commissioned.

[@melindamartin4523]

I got to see this at an air show in Duluth, MN back in 2012 - powerful!

[@joechancio5177]

I can watch these all day. Amazing what man has made!

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[@omaramador4669]

I’m not a pilot, i never meant to be. But my father wanted and showed me everything about Science and is the reason why i loved all related since I was a kid. I knew this jet for the first time in the Falklands War watching the news television at that time and always loving their style landing-take off too different to the others jet fighters. I think this plane couldn’t be replaced by F-35. They are similar but different at the same time. This plane did the test of time. Looks like all old military jets never couldn’t be “TERMINATED “

[@ingridneumann8196]

Ich kriege immernoch Gänsehaut. Ich hatte das Glück den Harrier 1 aufm Österreich Ring zu sehen. Das war der absolute Hammer

[@davebland8489]

After all these years it’s still amazing to see an aircraft just lift straight up into the air and fly away…

[@chocobloco214]

As a Brit I know we sold slot of these to you glad to know some are being used the USMC ooorah! Such a shame of government sold them all!

[@saabinsanity]

upgraded then sold for spares

[@AA-xo9uw]

@@saabinsanity Some had been upgraded but most were not and had already been put in long term storage in a hangar. The Sun published an article about it under the headline "Dump Jets".

[@happyfisherman4432]

Ever since my boy scout troop sold snow cones at the air show in 1980 the Harrier has been my favorite airplane.. i love how loud it is and what it can do.

[@stephenmitchell9024]

The Harrier and the A-10. Nothing better.

[@Федя-я7с]

ГОВНО ВАШ ХАРИЕР, НАСТОЯЩИЙ САМОЛЁТ ТОЛЬКО МИГ и СУшка.

[@karenwatters8598]

Insane techniques, takes a true extraordinary pilot to pull this off. Definately not for the faint hearted. Respect

[@Intuittogo]

Amazing things to see in our lifetime. Saw first one at TAFB OK a little over 30 yrs ago lift straight up into the air, fabulous.

[@debbi6224]

Great video! Amazing aircraft and the men and women who pilot and care for them. (Your thumbnail had me a bit confused, though.)

[@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering]

Makes me proud to be British 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@achillelevivier1680]

Are you Scottish

[@petarbanjac1268]

Britancu su okupatorska banda koja neda mir da zavlada na planeti

[@ahmetsalim3729]

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[@charlesperkins6440]

Proud to be British good call 👍👍

[@ademartadeodelpoz]

A real engineering masterpiece I LOVE THE HARRIER. I DO HOPE IT REMAINS ON DUTY FOR MANY YEARD TO COME. GOD BLESS IT. THANK YOU HARRY.

[@richardhubbard4680]

Brilliant British Invention

[@LAlingo]

Incredible seeing this beautiful machinery hover above the ocean

[@cutoff52]

Not bad for a slight improvement on the British harrier that I worked on as an apprentice in 1969 !!!

[@abcdeabcde7174]

note .... the lettering on the video is reversed , see 'handler' back of coat , 'marines' top of wing , 'danger' by air intake , however wonderful video of fantastic aircraft takes 50 years to be replaced , I remember seeing news reports from the falklands quite simply very special , thank you for posting ❤

[@MrDunkycraig]

I grew up not 10 miles from the uks Harrier base at Wittering. Always loved seeing them in the sky and landing over the A1 you felt you could touch them.

[@betsykeller9096]

VTOL aircraft do also include the V-22. So, the description is incorrect that the Harrier Jump Jet is the only short vertical takeoff aircraft. At the same time, I wish my Dad was alive to see these maneuvers. My Dad was the Lead Engineer on the Harrier for the United States in this joint project with the British. My Dad was Chief of Aerodynamics for Naval Air Systems Command on the V-22 Osprey Aircraft.

[@B0BThePounder]

The description is correct, this is the only svtol JET, the v-22 is not a jet.

[@betsykeller9096]

@@B0BThePounder Okay, I can accept that. I looked at it from the point of short takeoff. The Harrier is listed as a jet versus the Osprey which is listed as an aircraft. So, while the Harrier is also a form of aircraft, the V-22 is not a jet, so I can accept that. Thanks! Both were awesome. We had some great pics and models of these from when my Dad worked at NavAir.

[@xiphos1917]

​@@B0BThePounder what about the F-35B Lightning II? Hasn't that been in service since 2015?

[@B0BThePounder]

@@xiphos1917 Ah yes, forgot about this one. Not widely mentioned, always in the shadow of the Harrier it seems. @betsykeller9096 was incorrectly correct lol

[@BedtimeStoriesChannel]

Sorry, but the Harrier is a British jet, not a joint project. The AV8B was developed from the original British Harrier and whilst this particular variant was a joint collaboration between the US and UK, you can't deny that the technology and engineering behind it is inherently British. The UK developed their own variant of the original Harrier, called the Harrier II and also the Sea Harrier, which was the fastest Harrier variant and most combat proven of them all.

[@pirizhar3022]

Very. Very. Good. Nice. Video. Sir

[@ramshyamdas2810]

I love my India & proud of my Indian Army & Indian Air Force 🇮🇳🇮🇳

[@richardmcgonigle1160]

Thrust from 2 nozzles that can be poditioned by pilot. To Vtol. To straight crazy manouvres.

[@xmao_]

Мне нравится , как работают механики , словно боевые танцы)

[@СергейСоломыкин-э7ъ]

Кому нужна эта труха. вчерашний день.

[@contralt2374]

@@СергейСоломыкин-э7ъ Конечно, Кузя пример.

[@eugeneostrander-iw2np]

Wonderful performance history . Loved to take my three boys to joint base Andrews air shows . Harrier was always our favorite . They will be missed in our inventory .

[@Beornwulf525]

The Argentines still wake up in a cold sweat from this aircraft.

[@MiyaSparks-b8d]

Este avião é muito incrível . Seems insane that the UK has abandoned these capable aircraft.

[@scout14j]

I think they're replacing it with the F35B.

[@richardmcgonigle1160]

Amazing that manouverable nozzles actually provide the VTOL. And crazy manouvres thrust vectoring at the beginning. That rolls royce turbine. Shows rolls royce . Are amazing engines.. i know american companys. Like pratt and whitney.. have huge budgets. Lockheed im not sure what company makes the engines for skunk works.. but at the spec given to them.. sr71 blackbirds engines still facinate me.. the fuel is like tar in normal teperature has to heat the engines first... to liquify fuel. Actually stretches in flight mach 3.5.. fuel tanks had to be made like rubber bags so they could stretch.... was un touchable. By the time a missles got to its alltitude it was miles away ..going 3.5 mach... lol lock on n fire yes.. but by the time your missle gets anywhere near.. this baby was long gone.

[@clanrobertson7200]

I have always loved that plane and next to the F4 Phantom they are the two that I would have loved to have flown, but the war in Nam slowed down just as I graduated in March of 1971, and the last day that I went into studio to clean my drafting table after being the first 5 year professional design degree in my field, I found a letter on my desktop that was addressed to me at the College in the University form the Navy releasing me from my 6 years of NAVROC Which was my Navy Aviation Reserve Officers Candidates Program. I was supposed to be going to Pensacola following boot camp for a change to be a Navy Pilot. My dad was the gunner and copilot on an SBD Douglas Dive Bomber/Torpedo Plane and my dream was to follow in his shoes. At age 10 I even got so fired up that I designed a fighter jet plane and spent a fair amount of time pulling specification lines pointing out features and technical equipment. It’s extremely childish and reflects the late 1950s and early 1960s with the space race and Cape Canaveral being directly due East of where we had moved to in Florida in 1958. I sent it in with a letter saying that the Navy in Pensacola could have it to build if they liked. Well I had not told my parents that I had mailed it and a couple of months later I had all but forgotten it and I came home from school to find Mom excited, but for the wrong things at first. She thought that the Navy was drafting me through a mixup and maybe they had meant to call up my dad again because of the tensions that were building up in Cuba! So she was pretty upset either way until she got the nerve to open it and read the cover letter explaining that NAS Pensacola gets hundreds of letters and drawings from kids and they almost never put them into their monthly newsletter that shipped out to all of the fleets and NA Stations. However, they had never received one that was detailed and specified as mine from a 11 year old, so they felt it was worthy of a front page article and then they sent me a copy, of which I am forever grateful to my deceased mother for keeping that letter and article now that I am 75 and retired from a much more successful design career in Environmental Inventory and Analysis for private public lands and getting my Graduate Degree from the College of Environmental Design and having the opportunity to even be an instructor within my profession and to be a part of getting the School Accredited by our National Academic Branch of our Professional Registration Organization. The same year I had chaired the Honors Program for 4 years while I was at that University and at the end of the the program the Honors Fraternity for Architecture and Landscape Architecture Students was announcing their inductees and announcing other awards. I was thinking about how smooth it had gone and how the grants, loans and Scholarship had gone to those who earned them and those who deserved the boost that would mean that they could continue and get their degrees and I was proud because it had not been that way when I was given the chair. But then I heard my name and the Honor Fraternity had selected me as Professor of the year for Teaching and Service. I was floored. I left a few weeks later to return to private practice at 36. It took a year to get into a job even with a suppressed salary and work to build my resume and marketing skills. I had some tough years but I kept my clients satisfied and showed that I was always in charge with them in decision making and my projects began to win awards across professional and trade lines and I always just tried to do the best job that I could even if it required my weekends and evenings. In 38 years I never had a project over budget at the biding and I always did my own cost analysis multiple times during the job and my jobs ranged from 1/2 million dollars to as much as 34 million dollars. But when I tried to estimate a small job building terraces between my neighbors house and mine leading to the back yard I told my wife at the beginning that it was going to be about $1,500, and it finished at around $6,000. So she never believed me again. I am stopping here because I went way further than I should have. The old professor Live free or die! Death ☠️ to all tyrants, all tyrants foreign and domestic. Pedophiles too! No Shit………….

[@issobelann3299]

Stained glass

[@martinabowm1786]

Childhood memories! I built a plastic Revell kit of the Harrier - loved that jet!🙂

[@wilson5377]

Still an amazing vtol aircraft after all these years.😎👍

[@thetnaingsoe6346]

J

[@annamaybeekman]

BEAUTIFUL

[@cwolf8841]

There are a lot of advantages. Don’t need an expensive runway. Pilots can land and coordinate with the ground commander. No catapult needed. Landings are far safer.

[@irmaosoliveira5423]

Pense numa máquina. Será que nosso Brasil já tem, pelo menos uma dessa?

[@strangerone67]

Us never win any war......with these machines

[@josebeto5930]

Avião fantástico! Uma maravilha da engenharia britânica!

[@aeroscout8409]

Bait/click photo...

[@MrAckers75]

Got to give them their dues …the Brits can make some great stuff especially as this was designed in the 60s

[@anthonystar]

UK beloved icon just like Victor

[@shahnulislam9897]

The shoulder muscles on these jets .....

[@tanpengjoo7205]

MADE IN USA ALWAYS POWERFUL N BEAUTIFUL

[@kayveek7278]

It is made in UK

[@ТатьянаПолякова-ж9б]

Это потрясающе,я восхищаюсь смелостью и точностью!

[@haroldgardiner1966]

If you could make a hybrid Harrier and Warthog... WOW!!

[@ВалентинаИванова-т3у]

Дорогие наши летчики,победы вам ,родные вы наши,возвращайтесь домой!!!!❤❤❤❤

[@charliegould5865]

What an iconic aircraft, vertical takeoff and landings doesn’t need a proper runway versatile weapons loads. Such a great aircraft it’s only shortfall is it can’t fly at sustained supersonic speeds, it could go supersonic in a dive. But it proved its value against supersonic aircraft during the Falklands conflict, its main trick being its VIFF capability. With a supersonic aircraft behind it, whack the nozzles down and slightly foreword, go up and slow down, then when the supersonic aircraft overshoots in front drop in behind and stick a Sidewinder up his tail. BAe did try to develop a supersonic version, but to do that needs an afterburner. And with the engine hot nozzles being on the side of the fuselage an afterburner would do just that and burn the aft end of the aircraft off. Why the navy Sea Harriers were scrapped when they were, well before there was any replacement for them is a great mystery. And as for the Sea Harriers replacement, it may be a supersonic aircraft but it’s vertical capability is limited, it does have the latest technology avionic systems but it’s versatility is limited. I might be a bit biased towards the old Harrier and Sea Harrier, I did spend my apprenticeship time working on them, followed by thirteen years working in the BAe (formerly Hawker Siddeley Aviation) experimental hangar at BAe Dunsfold again on the Harrier and Sea Harrier. But why were they scrapped well before a replacement was fully available? Tragic!

[@HellcatPublications]

@charliegould5865 The Harrier still outclasses the F35 etc in its comprehensive variety of manoeuvres (but you know that). Hopefully, you held on to your photos & notebooks & will get around to creating your own Harrier book or video series.

[@jonofalltradesmasterofnone832]

Charlie, did you know my late father Tony Arrowsmith he was on sea harriers on the Ferranti radar later BAe originally at Dunsfold and moving to Yeovil in the later years of the harrier, discontinued by a government who had no idea of the importance of the aircraft. Which is now replaced by a inferior far more expensive aircraft which requires billion pound aircraft carriers and eye watering service costs to run. Look at the photos of the Harriers used in 1982 in the falklands with bullets holes that you can see daylight through will the F35 sustain. the same damage and keep going. And to call it a lightning is an insult to the EE original which my Dad also worked on. All the best Jon.

[@charliegould5865]

@@jonofalltradesmasterofnone832 No sorry, don’t remember the name, but I knew a lot of people by their faces and not their names, I left BAe in about ‘84 moving over to the airport on civil aircraft.

[@jonofalltradesmasterofnone832]

@@charliegould5865 that’s a shame he was at Dunsfold from 1989 so you missed each other. When you mentioned that you were an apprentice I thought he might know as he always believed in helping young engineers, including me to gain from his year of experience. Do you ever regret leaving military aircraft for civilian! Thanks for replying it means a lot All the best Jon.

[@charliegould5865]

@@jonofalltradesmasterofnone832 I was an apprentice aircraft electrician started my apprenticeship in1969 and finished in 1973.

[@markrumfola9833]

Just put buying one on my Bucket List.

[@franciscook5819]

Wonderful aircraft. Don't forget two things. 1) it could operate from about 50 miles from the front edge of the battlefield so it could be very fuel efficient per sortie compared to carrier-based or other land-based aircraft and it could have a comparatively high sortie rate. 2) The Sea Harrier (FRS1) had an air combat kill rate of 20 to nil lost in the Falklands. The only other significant aircraft (that I am aware of) with a "nil lost" record is the F15. All thanks to the Bristol Siddeley/RR Pegasus.

[@HO-bndk]

There were no real "dogfights" in the Falklands war. The SHARs were shooting down obsolescent bombers low on fuel and bugging out. And just ask the army how pathetically ineffective the Harrier GR3 ground attack missions were.

[@franciscook5819]

@@HO-bndk Pretty much everything you say is wrong. They Argentines lost 9 IAI Daggers and 1 Mirage III (supersonic fighter-bombers, the then equivalent of the F/A 18 today) to Sea Harriers (as well as "bomber" i.e. attack skyhawks etc). If you could be bothered to investigate you would find out that the Argentine CAP patrols knew they could outperform the Harrier at high altitude but were outperformed at low altitude. They failed to entice the Harriers to go high so they came low and were shot down - mostly AIM9L, I believe, a short range "dogfight" missile. One tactic the Harriers used was to send one of the pair several miles off to one side to attack the Argentine aircraft from the beam. Harriers at Goose Green took out 35mm guns pinning down 2 Para, effectively rescuing them and allowing them to achieve their objective. They were also used to attack and destroy fuel and ammunition, easing the task of the troops, but unseen by them. The accurate laser-guided loft-bombing taking out some of the Argentine guns was a factor in convincing them to surrender. The f*ckwit troops laser designated a piece of Argentine field artillery in Stanley too soon, causing the bomb to fall short, resulting in the only civilian deaths in the war. So "ineffective" is not an appropriate word for the aircraft but rather the (hopefully rare) dimwits operating the laser.

[@stevegrimes21]

@@HO-bndk get your facts right

[@kb4432]

Sounds perfect for Ukraine

[@stevegrimes21]

@@kb4432 we will supply you will beat the Russian

[@kamoteph273]

anchovies starting up a new religion after witnessing an interoceanic portal

[@nicktant1756]

It’s a shame they removed her from our arsenal

[@Turbomgzt]

She was a cold war bird. Designed to be hidden in forests and launched without runways. The yanks still cannot understand this concept when they brag about the F35 whatsitthingy.