#AV-8B Harrier II

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McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II

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US Marines AV-8B Harrier II - Atlanta Regional airport

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FH-1 Phantom I and F-4 Phantom II, AV-8B Harrier, F-101 Voodoo, F-15 Eagle, F/A-18 Hornet, and F2H Banshee at the McDonnell-Douglas St. Louis, MO plant.

Through a complicated series of corporate buyouts and mergers, the AV-8B, F-15 and F/A-18 are now Boeing aircraft.

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McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II+ - USA - Marines

Marine Attack Squadron 231 (VMA-231), known as the "Ace of Spades", is based at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina. - Photo taken at Lajes (Terceira Island - Lajes) / Azores (AB4) (TER / LPLA) in Azores, Portugal on May 16, 2017.

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AV-8B Harrier II in True Lies (1994)

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McDonnell-Douglas AV-8B Harrier II of Marine Attack Squadron 223 United States Marine Corps.

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McDonnell-Douglas AV-8B Harrier II Night Attack BuNo 164128, VMA-513 "Nightmares"

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AV-8B Harrier II lands on USS Peleliu (LHA-5)

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Italian Navy aircraft carrier ITS "Cavour" (C-550) operating the aircraft (F-35B) "Lightning II" and (AV-8B+) "Harrier II"...

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AV-8B Harrier II+ of BAT ARG/26 MEUSOC aboard USS Bataan. December 2023

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AV-8B HARRIER II.....

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AV-8B at MCAS Camp Pendleton - August 2018

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STOVL Fighters Collection DOWNLOAD

At the end of 1950s, the engineers had just an idea of delivering the aircraft even without a runway. Then in the beginning of 1960s, some tests conducted to test the capability of STOVL (Short Take-Off Vertical Landing) or in other word, a possibility of vertical movement of the fixed-wing aircraft, began with the "Flying bunk" in1959. Then the Hawker Siddeley Limited in Britain proposed a concept named "P1127 Kestrel" as a prototype of the VTOL fighter. Then this concept acepted and in 1969, the production of Harrier GR1 had begun. This aircraft was intended to be in use for Royal Air Force, but the Royal Navy also got their own version of FRS1 years later. These Harriers sought it's first battle experience in Falklands War in 1982 when these Harriers brought down some of the Argentine's air capability without any losses. The last of the Harrier production was in GR9 variant which subsequently substituted by the latest F-35B by the Royal Air Force.

McDonnell-Douglas AV-8B Harrier II

The USMC was also seeking the aircraft that suits for the amphibious mission. After the success of the Harrier FRS1 and GR3 variants in the Falklands War, in 1985 the USMC proposed an inquiry to acquire some of these aircrafts, with also stated that these aircrafts should be manufactured in the United States. Then BAe Industries licensed the Harrier to the McDonnell-Douglas company . Also this aircraft met the service within the Royal Spanish Navy in 1987. Several missions has been done by AV-8Bs including Gulf War, Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom and Libyan Crisis.

Lockheed Martin F-35B

The STOVL variant of F-35 Thunderbolt which it's STOVL technology derived from Yak-141 VTOL system, which sold to the Lockheed Martin in 1992, which emphasizes the vector exhaust and a fan in the middle of the aircraft. Also the most wanted aircraft in action of this century. The F-35B is the short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) variant of the aircraft. Similar in size to the A variant, the B sacrifices about a third of the A variant's fuel volume to accommodate the SDLF. This variant is limited to 7 g. Unlike other variants, the F-35B has no landing hook. The "STOVL/HOOK" control instead engages conversion between normal and vertical flight.The F-35B is capable of Mach 1.6 (1,976 km/h) and can perform vertical and/or short take-off and landing (V/STOL)

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AV-8B Harrier II - Arabian Sea (Oct. 7, 2003) -- An AV-8B Harrier approaches the flight deck of USS Peleliu (LHA-5) during flight operations on the ship's flight deck, as part of Expeditionary Strike Group One (ESG-1). U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class James K. McNeil.

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The F-35B LIGHTNING II and AV-8B HARRIER hover on pillars of fire in these IR photos.

Why don't they both fall over on their noses? There are more jets of cold gas holding up the front that don't show up in these pictures. The F-35B has a massive lift fan behind the cockpit, spun by a power take-off gearbox on the front of the engine that sucks in cold air through that big door on top and blasts it out the bottom. The Harrier has a Pegasus fan-jet engine and directs the cool fan flow through two nozzles in front (that white square above the nose gear is the one on the left side, and another is over on the right) to support the front of the aircraft in the hover.