BBC reporter's RAF Harrier Flight

The BBC's James Blatch goes on a low level sortie in an RAF Harrier with 1(Fighter) Squadron.

[@JeffGR4]

I love those Harriers!!!! I saw one perform a beautiful demo today here in the United States.

[@raymondrayban]

it has a very distinctive sound when i saw it start up at an airshow a few years back,i think its awesome,

[@RojoPirata]

Outstanding, Sir!

[@The_Unintelligent_Speculator]

Tristar was beautiful

[@megatwingo]

Interesting video. Thanks for uploading. Thumbs up! :)

[@vne1981]

Nice video! Did anyone else notice that the Pilot breifing at 1.35 is a Kiwi (New Zealander), he is a former RNZAF Skyhawk Pilot.

[@MrMoorkey]

Never went backseat in a Harrier. Managed to get a go backseat in a Hawk (you Americans call the Goshawks I believe) It is impossible to describe how awesome it was.

[@tasior2103]

great flying, i wish could be a least passenger someday

[@Mishinima]

Amazing !

[@brokenpipe]

Thank you for sharing this video, very interesting. I wonder if this T2 is the one that downed a little while ago?

[@Darkclawable]

Good video, the Harrier is Awesome.

[@brokenpipe]

Indeed it is

[@grantdeshane]

avro was a canadian company, for one, and wikipedia it avrocar, first aircraft to have verticle to forward thrust

[@Colin_Shapton]

You can carry more fuel / weapons if you do a short rolling take-off. Hence STOVL - Short Take Off Vertical Landing.

[@TeamYankee2]

@AirSquirrel1 The Typhoon is not Air to Ground rated yet.. couldn't even drop a turd on the Taliban! The RAF’s current fleet is now being used to deliver quick reaction alert cover for the UK from Coningsby in Lincolnshire and Leuchars in Scotland, and also for the Falkland Islands. This emphasis on delivering air defence services from multiple sites has come at the expense of the RAF establishing the Typhoon as a ground-attack asset.

[@SPOOKSTR]

I race GP bikes and i thought that was a real buzz...but it ain't got shit on what these guys do...what an awesome way to make a living.

[@tkmsteve331]

yeah he did, on the g meter on the hud you can see he pulls over 4

[@hcytkr]

is there anywere in the UK or the world that u can fly as a passenger in a military jet like ppl do on documentarys like jeremy clarkson

[@mika4eva1000]

its actually new type of jets tht came out in 2000 in the UK i think not sure but i know cause my mums mates mate used to fly 1

[@planejunky]

Great clip. The original Harrier was indeed a British design, entering service in 1969 as the GR.1 later upgraded with a laser ranger and called GR.3. The Royal Navy the Sea Harrier FRS.1 (later upgraded to FA.2 in the 1990's) which along with the GR.3 fought in the Falklands war of 1982. The USMC and Spanish Armada both purchased the aircraft too as the AV-8A. BAe and McDonnell Douglas teamed up in the 1980's to develop the HArrier II, today's GR.7&9/AV-8B, also used by Spain and Italy.

[@marekmazurek5510]

Im polish but i live in England and i want to be a Royal air force Pilot my favourite plane is f/a 22 f-22

[@Solidboat123]

"To bad it's not that good : /" How'd you work that one out?

[@lovegarbage]

@okaaaiiiden It is not I am afraid

[@PrivateCustard]

The Typhoon carried out air to ground sorties over Libya in April 2011! Google 'Operation Ellamy'

[@davidanthony8290]

If an aircraft is born in a country then it is intellectually owned by that country. The modern Harrier has a reasonable content which is designed in the USA, including the wings but it doesn't become American. I have serious doubts whether any modern aircraft is 100% pure country specific content.

[@watson946]

It's a T10.

[@CP-uk3sx]

Is this RAF wittering?

[@catdegaffori6106]

Hello to Marek Mazurek, i would like to known if you would like to meet me on the web ?

[@jackquinn96]

yes he knows that, he means britain made the harrier because theres alot of americans who think they made the harrier

[@SayMoreTaimoor2]

But the F-35A,B, and C are.

[@DannytLFC01]

we can build weapons of destruction but why can we build a car

[@brokenpipe]

ROFL, no sorry.

[@DannytLFC01]

@Kookas bad cars america corvetts mustangs

[@lovegarbage]

The Harrier that we plucky Brits use is a development of the McDonnell Douglas AV8B so the Harrier as we know it is AMERICAN!

[@grantdeshane]

@agibbs98 actually it was canadians who first invented the engeineering marvel ur speaking of in the harrier jump jet, look it up, was an attempt at a huver craft and then when we sold avro the british got the blue prints and designed the harrier

[@blackburnbuccaneer]

The Typhoon FGR.4 Can out fly the raptor in almost every aspect of the flight envelope and, despite it's "stealth features" Typhoons have obtiained missille lock on F-22s on several occasions, not only with IRST but also with the CAPTOR radar.

[@bleyland629]

LOVE IT :P although not 100% brittish might i add. atleast i dont think so. if anyone could tell me awsome :P

[@FallenPhoenix86]

Avro was not a Canadian company, they were a British company with a Canadiann division. Before 1945 Avro Canada didn't exist.

[@ianholliday4204]

AVRO made the vulcan and the lancaster definately not canadian but had canadian affiliations thats all

[@blackburnbuccaneer]

Also what is the point of designing a stealth air superiority fighter which does not have sufficent internal fuel to opperate at the ranges which are required to provide air cover for the more remote areas of the U.S. and as a result it must carry drop tanks thus negating the stealth features which are integral to the F-22s claimed capabilities.

[@zealot256]

Except that the US bought plenty of them.

[@transonicbuoy1]

Aye, this one's 100% UK. Don't forget, too, that most modern fighters rely on Martin Baker, UK, Bucks, firm, for their ejection seats.

[@zealot256]

I know, I just stated the only reason the harrier could be construed to be American.

[@t43562]

It's embarrassing to read the crap that comes out of your own side. The Avro Arrow was Canadian, the Harrier GR5-9 were a McDonnell Douglas redesign of the Harrier (with BAE help) - could quite reasonably be called American-ish. The Harrier was based on a French idea and only got going in the UK because an American at the MWDP passed on the idea to Bristol. Being proud of a great achievement is one thing but being blind to others is dishonourable. e.g. F22 canopy by GEC (uk) blisks by MTU (.de)

[@draaier327]

he ik wordt een beetje misselijk

[@dazyboy1973]

@lovegarbage wrong, the harrier is British then we sold some to the us marines. Then McDonnell Douglas brought the rights to build them and they redesigned them, enter the AV8B. the harriers you saw in the film were probably a GR7 and the trainer, they 're a evolution of the Harriers we've been building since the beginning.

[@transonicbuoy1]

Let's not go down that infamous KZbin Britain/US debate thing. Thanks for your comments. But I remember, distinctly, the Falklands. Two small carriers and a handful of Harriers - amazing stuff. Yes, Mc Doug USA did enhance the Harrier. But the RR Pegasus is the powerplant, the frame, and of course the whole concept, is British. You chaps have enough of you own amazing creations, so we don't need to start an anonymous web argument. Cheers.

[@The_Unintelligent_Speculator]

Colour party

[@shad0wshrew]

the thing is british have the best trained piolts, seamen and army than everywhere else. im going into the raf as all my fathers apart from my dad where in the millatry.

[@FreeworldOL]

mig 29 in russia, google search 10K euro

[@Nickshark1982]

Didn't the technology come from the Germans? I am not sure.....

[@anglonig1]

No

[@daveslow84]

i'm never quite sure if i should find the american way of thinking that NOBODY could EVER achieve ANYTHING even close to their excellence, let alone BETTER saddening and frightening or just plain amusing =/

[@corinth492]

@agibbs98 The Nazis could not invade the United Kingdom, they did not have anything that could get past the Royal Navy or the RAF, get your head out of your backside

[@jonshepherd]

Yes the Harrier was designed and built by British citizens but I bet you personally had fuck all to do with it.

[@JackDevvo]

The Harrier Is 100000000000% NOT American