Back in 1979 - 80 when I was doing my military service in the air force in Denmark, the Harrier fighter impressed us. I was a ground-based radio outpost that was to report enemy aircraft to the command center. My knowledge of aircraft was all about being able to recognize enemy and allied aircraft in the air, but Harrier stood out from the crowd, with its unique ability to hang still in the air and to land and take off vertically.
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!
@@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.
In the 1980's and 1990's, when I served, the Harrier was one of the foremost fighter/attack aircraft. Unfortunately, it's single engine, light armor, combined with a very vulnerable radar signature, made it extremely high-risk to loss, both in combat, and normal operation. Fortunately, no other country at the time had anything quite like it, and the Harrier enjoyed a long period of superiority in any close combat operations involving friendly troops on the ground.
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 "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.
The word awesome is so childish it's heartwarming. To call something awesome it to show childlike passion for something what think to be the purest form. It's clearly been his dream to fly fighter jets from young
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
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.
@@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.
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!
This Aircraft should never have been retired ,put them in storage, but should never have been scrapped, this was the best ground attack Aircraft ever , it was deadly in it role, could pop up and take out targets in any terrain, terrible decision , to scrapped them !!!!
it's cool watching them launch from the deck of a carrier. double hearing protection (plugs and muffs) you can scream at the top of your lungs and not hear yourself. not so much fun when doing night ops and your berthing area was directly under the flight deck, about rattle you out of the rack.
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 :)
3:43 that's the T-3. I've sat in that and lifted it off the ground (then put it back) and I'm not a pilot! Throttle left side with a twist grip to move the nozzles. When I hovered it the instructor said "Do EXACTLY what I say, or we're both dead".
Is there any real life basis for VTOL jets hovering above an area and attacking ground targets with an autocannon on a ball turret on the underside of the jet?
but why can't i find a single video on youtube that shows the harrier take off vertically and continue to take flight?? i have seen it take off vertically and hover in place..can it also move forward and attain full speed?
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.
If that guy talking about the puffers told me to do anything, I'd do it, and if I asked questions, he would answer them. I'd get on with it, knowing I was doing the right thing.
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.
Did he say conventional military jets need 9,000 feet of runway? A C-5 fully loaded doesn't even need that (8,300 feet). An F-16 normal takeoff is about 1500 feet...so yes the Harrier is much shorter, but c'mon man
@@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.
The the Brits retired this genius piece of engineering and sucked up to the Americans and bought the Raptor II instead for $150m a piece instead of producing new versions!
i didnt press show more on the description and it said "The Harrier is one of the most extraordinary planes ever built, informally referred to as the Harrier"
A beautiful work of engineering.
Should never be forgotten. Especially its massive role in the Falklands.
Never mind the spitfire,the Harrier has it all!
Back in 1979 - 80 when I was doing my military service in the air force in Denmark, the Harrier fighter impressed us.
I was a ground-based radio outpost that was to report enemy aircraft to the command center. My knowledge of aircraft was all about being able to recognize enemy and allied aircraft in the air, but Harrier stood out from the crowd, with its unique ability to hang still in the air and to land and take off vertically.
It’s sad to see this thing retire from the navy and Air Force, keep flyin high little buddy, you did us proud
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!
I don't care about its combat capabilities, but as a plane its a gorgeous piece of engineering.
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?
coolest jet ever made
I'm 56,when I was a kid this was the best thing ever .
It's still the best thing ever ever.
🙃🏴🇦🇺
I still want one.
In the 1980's and 1990's, when I served, the Harrier was one of the foremost fighter/attack aircraft. Unfortunately, it's single engine, light armor, combined with a very vulnerable radar signature, made it extremely high-risk to loss, both in combat, and normal operation. Fortunately, no other country at the time had anything quite like it, and the Harrier enjoyed a long period of superiority in any close combat operations involving friendly troops on the ground.
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.
When I was a child in the 80's , I had a poster of a Harrier on my bedroom wall !
So Awesome ! ! !
✈👍😉 ✈
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
On vacation, I saw the USMC variants flying near Cherry Point NC. They were very loud but very unique as they would slow to do vertical landings.
1903 first flight, It's mind blowing that you could be born for the first flight and maybe live to see this. That's crazy to me
I thought the first flight was in 1967
@@Johnny-on-the-spot he means the first plane ever
Man this thing needs to come back into action
LEGENDARY PLANE LIKE MINE AND MIRAGE SIR.
The word awesome is so childish it's heartwarming. To call something awesome it to show childlike passion for something what think to be the purest form. It's clearly been his dream to fly fighter jets from young
That was fascinating.
British engineering definetely on a par with infamous German engineer8ng capabilities.
Love this bird. Seeing it in action is stunning
This is my favorite Jet
That is both beautiful and amazing. My husband told me his son in law may be flying one. Wow!
My cousin designed the engines for the Harrier and the Concorde.I wish he was still here today.😄👍👍
All by himself?
Legend
One of my best fighter jet ever!
I wish and pray that one day, one of my nepew or grand sons be pilot in RAF and make us proud.
I started to appreciate the Harrier's capability when I watched the movie True Lies in the early 90s....
Yup! Most of us did too!
My favourite Fighter Jet....
🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 British engineering 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧
@Count Vitehud VII so you should be. I'm proud to be British. The vulcan is best bomber.
This plane is a legend. Without it, there will be no TRUE LIES
This is a beautiful plane woah just woah
Brilliant BRITISH engineering
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
Shame the harrier jump jet,taken out of service,I watched the last retirement flight fly by from RAF wittering,sadly missed !
WartHog TFK NAh thats stovl Cuz it cant take off vertically n go into standard flight
The discovery channel extreme machines !
I use my Hydra for just everyday getting around town.
On a serious note though.. this thing is a magnificent machine! What an engineering feat
It's a beautiful warbird.
Could be still here today with modern electronics systems inside it.
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.
5:34
"The concentration level is high as possible"
gta sa/v characters: Hold my beer.
Use leveler sensor link to keep level during hovering may help pilot free hand
One of the best planes, this one is
an irreplaceable jewel. F-35 is its perfect partner for Air to Air engagements.
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?
This Aircraft should never have been retired ,put them in storage, but should never have been scrapped, this was the best ground attack Aircraft ever , it was deadly in it role, could pop up and take out targets in any terrain, terrible decision , to scrapped them !!!!
This reminds me of Metal gear solid 2, what a game
I know right??
it's cool watching them launch from the deck of a carrier.
double hearing protection (plugs and muffs) you can scream at the top of your lungs and not hear yourself.
not so much fun when doing night ops and your berthing area was directly under the flight deck, about rattle you out of the rack.
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
SHOULD BE 2100.KINDLY DONN'T TAKE IT HEART'IF I SAID SOMETHING WRONG.
Excellent work 👍
IT'S ACTUALLY TRUE SIR.
3:43 that's the T-3. I've sat in that and lifted it off the ground (then put it back) and I'm not a pilot! Throttle left side with a twist grip to move the nozzles. When I hovered it the instructor said "Do EXACTLY what I say, or we're both dead".
But did they buy it with pepsi points tho?
Absolutely fascinating !
Flew it in a simulator. The vertical takeoff is awesome… and then the flipping of thrust into generating speed. Mach speed.
Nice flight
No need for runways with this badass jet.
Is there any real life basis for VTOL jets hovering above an area and attacking ground targets with an autocannon on a ball turret on the underside of the jet?
Is my favorite from MW2
Somebody call the queen....I want oneeeeee!😂
Amazing nice plane,beautiful design,
but why can't i find a single video on youtube that shows the harrier take off vertically and continue to take flight?? i have seen it take off vertically and hover in place..can it also move forward and attain full speed?
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 TH-cam
th-cam.com/video/ygWDck6Fn4g/w-d-xo.html
Looks like it needs major cleaning, those ducts look like a lot of exhaust residue
Awesome cool jet ✈️
Harrier jump jet 💨✈💨 🇬🇧
I loved the British(English) they're scientifically intelligent.
If a cooler piece of engineering exists, I don't know about it.
If that guy talking about the puffers told me to do anything, I'd do it, and if I asked questions, he would answer them. I'd get on with it, knowing I was doing the right thing.
All i can say... MW2 !.
“Harriers inbound!”
Gta 5
Harrier airstrike
Beautiful video
harrier, chopper gunner, tac nuke and ACR with red dot
All about their intentionally bad appointment! Was best under the limmited bits but needed a smile.
Better to stop and land than to land and stop!
8:24 that camera position tho
this plane concept is too advance for this world's technology.
hope they will pick this up again in the future when we have better tech and fuel.
So do I a more sleek design while still keeping the gimmicks could really deliver some punch
@@maxparkhouse6850f35b?
Wow amazing and very very cool.
ENEMY VTOL JET IN THE AO
1: sr71
2: a103
3: jump jet
beauty
Hydra gang wya?
Báltazar k
Meeee
Your name suggests it all
2:15 did he just bend the nozzle down by hand?!
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.
I was only a handful of people the good grind the Undercart
we were ther e
Being capable of vertical take off does not a helicopter make...
Good
I think all ok a bit unbalanced but front is lighter today rear balanced
It’s essentialy the avenger’s quinjet
yeah thats what I always thought
Back when the UK was gd at engineering...
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)
harrier is the best. war is dumb
My cousin built and designed it.
Lier
@@cherylravennorman5876 Do not think so sport.Stanley Hooker built and designed engine etc.
Keep tho birds flying
*Enemy VTOL in the AO*
GTA?
Hydra
Did he say conventional military jets need 9,000 feet of runway? A C-5 fully loaded doesn't even need that (8,300 feet). An F-16 normal takeoff is about 1500 feet...so yes the Harrier is much shorter, but c'mon man
It‘s not called jump plane, it‘s called VTOL
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.
The Incom T-65 X-Wing is the fighter that killed the Death Star.
A10 Warthog
Ya to f35 ka mukabla kr rha ha .wo be este saal phela technology aa gyi thi..
Sadly a fuel guzzler.
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.
nifty
The the Brits retired this genius piece of engineering and sucked up to the Americans and bought the Raptor II instead for $150m a piece instead of producing new versions!
GTA San Andres jet
gta!!!
Shut up.
Top.e.top...
Hydra
someone had to say it
like negativo per troppa publicita
I shot one of these down over the Big Shell with Stinger Missiles
True story
i didnt press show more on the description and it said "The Harrier is one of the most extraordinary planes ever built, informally referred to as the Harrier"
I see UFO all over this
2:49 the pilot uses his what? Stick or **ck
Typical Britain. Developed a unique aircraft, vital in the Falklands war. So they abandoned it. The USA recognised its value and continued to use it.
They retired it for the f35