#Harrier jump-jet

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SR71_v_c_o_AKP (orig. M.O.D. (P.E.) R.A.F. Farnborough photo, neg. no. B2460-15, 2-9-74) by Mike Acs Via Flickr: “On September 1, 1974 Major James V. Sullivan, 37 (pilot) and Major Noel F. Widdifield, 33 (Reconnaissance Systems Officer), flashed across the starting line (radar gates in New York) at approximately 80,000 feet and speed in excess of 2,000 miles per hour. Exactly 1 hour 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds later, they had set a new world speed record from New York to London, England. The average speed was 1,807 statute mph over the 3,461 statute mile course, slowing to refuel one time from a specially modified KC-135 refueling tanker. The aircraft was placed on static display at the Farnborough Air Show for one week. It marked the first time the secret plane had been on public display outside of the United States. Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson, the aircraft’s designer, was on hand for the event. He remarked, "It (the SR-71) has exceeded all my expectations." The above is much better than anything I could’ve come up with. At: sr71.com/srspee~1.htm See also: sr71.com/image2~1.htm Both above credit: "SR-71 Blackbirds" website New York to London: - 1 hour - 54 minutes - 56.4 seconds Excellent, with additional wonderful photos: www.key.aero/article/mach-3-men One of those wonderful photos. From a different viewpoint, and a moment before my posted photo. Fantastic: fullfatthings-keyaero.b-cdn.net/sites/keyaero/files/impor... Credit: "KEY.AERO" website Mind boggling. A striking photograph of probably the most brutally stunning, drop-dead gorgeous operational aircraft - EVER. Doesn’t that look like a Harrier - on the tarmac? - in the background to the right? Maybe the other aircraft that are also visible? So, if the above is correct, then the aircraft basically had a ‘running start’. Then was the ‘finish line’ analogous, thus ‘running’ through such radar gates IVO Farnborough? London Heathrow? The aircraft resides at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.

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RAF GR.9A in Mach Loop

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

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Harrier Jump Jet. The History Of Vertical Take-Off And Landing (VTOL).

VIDEO ➤➤ https://youtu.be/6Wsw59TVeJc

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Crimson One blaming Monarch for bringing about the Second Calamity. My brother in Dust you dropped the bombs.

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1974 ad for the Hawker Siddeley Harrier model kit from Matchbox. 1:72nd scale.

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Harrier

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Jump Jet Girls

VTOL fighter jets F-35B Harrier GR.3 Yak-141 X-32

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And at RAF Gutersloh….Harrier GR3

@CcibChris via X

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RAF GR7 kicks up dirt as it lands at Elvington

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British Royal Navy submarine aircraft carrier: Skyhook variant concept of the Royal Navy Vanguard-class SSBN for the anticipated BAE P.1214 VTOL aircraft. The Skyhook system was tested with Harrier Jump jets, but wasn't progressed any further and the P.1214/6 was cancelled by 1988

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Kārember (Flying-Fire) ,Circombust and Scorchaast. (Steel-Fire)

Kārember are small and highly manoeuvrable fliers, barnstormers and daredevils who spend their days honing their flight skills and fire powers deep in Ãrohwas forests to become defenders of the innocent and in need, though at present many take to delivering news to those with more experience or authority if trouble arise,baby steps yknow...

Circombust are more experienced fliers and love to show off their skills to crowds, often tourists who come up to the Ãrohwan wilds to catch a glimpse of the rare pokemon and the most frequently spotted of its evolutionary line as a consequence, though despite their showoffy nature, they will not hesitate to jump into action at injustice, an audience witnessing its heroic deed being a nice bonus.

Scorchaast are the lords of the Ãrohwan skies, their internal furnaces now enabling them to jet across the sky faster than the speed of sound, and hitting with steel,fire and flying attacks even harder. Despite all this power like the similarly armoured knights of old these pokemon are deeply honourable warriors, and despite many desiring a Scorchaast for their own teams they only pick trainers with a similarly moral attitude towards humans and pokemon alike, lest the old tale about a Scorchaast being strong enough to carry a human in a single claw be put to the test...

A few days ago @glimwood-tangle-national-park reblogged this previous post and said that they'd love to have a falcon to help them take out Weasoil akin to the invasive mink in their native Scotland, lucky for them I have just the pokemon for the job, and then some...

This pokemon actually started out as a starter concept that I liked so much I couldn't bear to completely can (not wanting a second bird-based starter line), so some revisions later here they are as the first avian psuedo-legendaries!

Ihope you like these designs and all likes and reblogs for my art are always appreciated!

Design inspiration down below:

If it wasn't obvious by the name Scorchaast and its pre-evolutions are based on the birds of prey of New Zealand and Polynesia, with secondary inspiration coming from various sorts of warplanes and pilot uniforms from across recent history.

Kārember (Kārearea/Kāiaia, maori names for the new zealand falcon + ember) is based on falcons, the only falcon native to New Zealand as well as ornithopters and early fixed wing aircraft.

Circombust (combust + Circus, the genus name for harrier birds) is based on the Swamp Harrier and the Eyles Harrier, the former a cosmopolitan native to much of south asia and Australia as well as the south pacific and the latter a larger, extinct relative endemic to New Zealand as well as world war two-era monoplanes.

Scorchaast (scorch + haast) is based on the Haasts Eagle, famously the largest Eagle known to ever live and modern jet fighter aircraft.

(As a final side note,if the red and grey colours of scorchaast remind you of a certain treacherous jet robot, it was very much intentional being the transformers fan i am, I also like the idea of Scorchaast's shiny being either black and purple or blue and red as an homage to the jet transformers skywarp and thundercracker, themselves famous examples of palette swaps)

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More cool planes, ME262↑ Harrier↓ F-16 Viper↓↓

Good sound; good flying.

Watch "Awesome French Dassault Rafale C RIAT 23" on YouTube

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B-2 Stealth bomber single-seater jump jet harrier gunship with a spear nose. This really is a schlocky action movie

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Designed a combat exoskeleton and an... "armed" motorcycle for a story.

The exoskeleton is designed for ultra-high mobility, which means heavy armor is limited to the helmet and torso, while the rest just gets some light kevlar. A high-volume low-pressure hydraulic system give it speed at the expense of strength, and a hydropneumatic drum allows the limbs to be backdriven slighly to act as shock absorbers. Smoke grenades, electronic warfare countermeasures, and a automatic-dodging function on the jetpack improve its survivability.

The motorcycle is heavily armored from the front, with heavy armor and a pair of redundant wheels. Its AI allows it to drive and fight independently of the rider, and it has a pair of retractable arms to help with manual tasks.

All weapons on suit and motorcycle have aim-assist using a pair of gyroscopes, which is how the suit is able to mount weapons on the back of the arm, where hardsights would be less effective. When the rider is not on the cycle, its weapons are controlled solely with the gyroscopes.

The story takes place on Earth, chronologically earlier than my other stories, so the technology is appropriately slightly more primitive.

Inspirations and influences below cut

Hulc Exoskelteon from real life, Combat Jacket from Edge of Tomorrow (specifically the hands)

Harrier Jump jet thrust nozzles from real life, various cool suits from the work of Tsutomu Nihei

Bubblegum Crisis Hardsuits and motorslaves

The Batcycle, and whatever this thing is