Originally posted by aldra
OH that's actually an ejection, I wasn't paying attention before and assumed it was some sort of emergency protocol if the front jet fails
to be fair VTOL's always been a problem even before the F35 program though
RAF and Royal Navy were managing it fine 45 years ago
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Originally posted by NARCassist
RAF and Royal Navy were managing it fine 45 years ago
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^ I remember something very similar as a kid at an airshow I attended. The crowd formed a circle about 200ft in diameter (which was taped off) and a harrier came and landed in the middle of it with us all surrounding it. It blew my mind as as young-fella-me-lad.
They'd never allow such a thing these days because of saftey regulations etc.
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson
^ I remember something very similar as a kid at an airshow I attended. The crowd formed a circle about 200ft in diameter (which was taped off) and a harrier came and landed in the middle of it with us all surrounding it. It blew my mind as as young-fella-me-lad.
They'd never allow such a thing these days because of saftey regulations etc.
Yes those damn safety regulations really ruined life huh?
Originally posted by ner vegas
the system 'works', it's just too complicated and prone to failure for it to be worthwhile… nobody deploys them outside of very small numbers
They were extremely complicit to our re-invasion of the Falkland islands. Would have been way more difficult without the Harriers.
And they done the job perfectly
Was you even born back in 1982 alder?
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Originally posted by NARCassist
They were extremely complicit to our re-invasion of the Falkland islands. Would have been way more difficult with the Harriers.
And they done the job perfectly
Was you even born back in 1982 alder?
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There's a video I remember seeing at the time (I've never been able to find it) of a Harrier being chased by an Argentinian Mirage jet and the harrier does a "top gun" move....slows and virtually stops and the mirages flies by and boom! the harrier takes him out.