Great Footage Taken From Cockpit of Harrier - Harrier Takes Off From USS Kearsarge - Marine Aviation
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- AV-8B Harrier Pilot assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 266 (Reinforced), 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), conducts flight operations off the USS Kearsarge (LHD3), Mediterranean Sea, March 28, 2013. The 26th MEU is deployed to the 6th Fleet's area of operations. The 26th MEU operates continuously across the globe, providing the President and unified combatant commanders with a forward-deployed, sea-based quick reaction force. The MEU is a Marine Air-Ground Task Force capable of conducting amphibious operations, crisis response and limited contingency operations.
God bless the UK for inventing the versatile Harrier. The AV-8 has served America well in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Kosovo and elsewhere. A big thank you to our British cousins from across the pond!
Our good neighbours the French must also take some small credit in the development of what turned out to be the Harrier.
The layout of the Pegasus engine with four nozzles and how it might be utilised in a vtol aircraft was I think initially a French concept which was adopted, realised and built by Hawker and others later.
My source is a long lost edition of Aeroplane Magazine (UK) that featured the Harrier story a few years ago now.
There were also ideas for a supersonic capable heavy development of the Harrier which never came about.
Awesome - love this view from inside the Harrier
- wish there was intercom audio though!
I built those engines while in the Marines.. I never knew they sounded like a vacuum cleaner when flying them until now. No wonder we had to so much FOD damage..
The UK Government were dicks to retire their Harrier fleet early.
Especially for retiring the FA. 2 😔but sure they needed the money for the GR. 9
WHY THE HELL ARE YOU READING UA-cam COMMENTS. Watch a video and then stab an unfolded paper clip in your eye, the experience is similar.
Lmao
I always been amazed by this jet, and always wondered how is from the cockpit ... this video is just a dream come true !!! Thanks for sharing !!! Cheers and keep up the good work.
It takes years and years and life of dedication to become a harrier pilot. You must be a born aviation lover.
He looks pleased with that landing haha
Love the sound of that engine spooling up...
Nice Video... And special thanks for not dubbing over with music!
I wish that UA-cam and GoPros were around in the late 80s when I served as an avionics tech with the VMA-231 Harrier squadron. It would have given me a greater appreciation of what the pilots job was. All I knew was.that they went out fixed and came back broke. Semper Fi.
Spent 7 months on that boat in 97. The lawn dart was the bane of my existence. Broke all of the time but interesting to watch. It ain't that awesome Paul.
Great, look like real in the cockpit. Thanks to upload this movie.
Nice quick clear video man gj . Landing wasn't that bad
I used to watch Harriers take off and land from the roof of the old hospital at KAF back in 2006, and they could really move fast. Very loud engine too, but a cool aircraft to watch. They were very busy when I was there.
The most amazing video, from a kid who used to just dream of these from about the Falklands war time. Thanks so much for uploading!
Incredible video man! great last part too, watching the other harrier take landing.
Great piece of British engineering and innovation. It's a pity the British govt. decided to stop flying them. Keep up the good work US Marines!
Actually they used German engineering
@@greyrider6281 German concept
Great post,thanks Battlefield.
That's so cool seeing that Harrier in that last bit doing what the pilot just did.
It's an awesome aircraft to behold. Thanks for posting!
Terrific POV.
Awesome ! Respect.
One of the best aircraft EVER. Long live 1 Squadron!
And I thought I had quite an exciting day today....
Outstanding and awesome,take me back to working with harriers in RAF Germany,1971/74 and again 84/87.but removed in the goverment review in 2010,what a shame.
Great job!!!!!
Fantastic clip - thanks very much.
I like the way those planes land.. a true technology breakthrough.
That's why it's called Harrier, mean in Arab is "Silk", because that aircraft landed smoothly..
Lovely tech view
Try Utomo Andi No it's named Harrier after the bird.
Lucky. Pilots are never satisfied with their landings :D
One of the designers of the Kestrel/Harrier was Sidney Camm, the legend responsible for the Hawker Hunter and the Hurricane, one of the planes which saved the free world back in 1940. What a career!.
I swear...that's the stuff dreams are made out of!
Great video,no disco gay music.
Thanks for keeping it real.
Awesome plane and it sure needs awesome pilots to do that. Thanks for sharing. :)
Got to be up there as one of the best British planes ever 👍👍
Pretty Bad Ass!!! Incredible experience. I'm jealous!
A special plane for special pilots, skilled stuff. Thanks USA from a Brit. 👍🇺🇸🇬🇧👍
There is NO experience like being a Pilot.
My LIFE is like a SCI-FI movie...
Gee...you guys don't get much leg room in those things. Thanks a bunch for the video...it's hell cool!
love from Italy!!
Love that "never satisfied with technique" head shake at 3:09 or so after touchdown but nothing to be ashamed of... after all, he out it on the deck in 12 seconds from hover where next guy took over 20 and frequency of ops is critical.
That was the most Amazing thing Ive ever seen !!
Does such a jet wirk with an ADIRU too?
Or just GPS?
And have it an Autopilot like normal planes?
That is a sight to behold right there
fantastic video really gives you a brilliant perspective what is like fly this type plane from taking off to landing - what a dream job to do for a living!
enjoyed that.. Thank you.
That's crazy!!!! AWESOME!!!
This may have been covered earlier in the comment section so apologies for any redundancy but what is the purpose for the wire above the pilot's head? Does it support the canopy in some way? Thanks.
if i'm not mistaken. i think those wires on top of his head are like those heat wires like when the cockpit glass goes foggy. like in your car you wonder why your back dashboard has lines in the back. its to either melt or defog your glass
series25a Put my servant Google to work and found an interesting result: that wire actually contains a small explosive charge. During the ejection sequence that wire detonates a charge with the blast directed upward to shatter the canopy. In the case of "normal" aircraft there is enough airspeed to get the canopy out of the way of the pilot before he/she ejects. With a VSTOL aircraft that is not the case when the aircraft is hovering. That is the pilot would be launched right into the canopy - see Top Gun for how this turns out! ;) So the charge in that wire shatters the canopy so the pilots head does not have to.
Ejecting from a fighter plane sounds like a whole lot of fun! /sarc
RobertKaydoo Robert is right, it is called Miniature Detonating Cord (MDC) The Harrier has to have what is called a zero zero ejector seat. This means that the pilot can eject at zero speed and zero altitude. The seat is propelled high enough for the canopy to deploy.
Christopher Gregory 4
This is bloody excellent, mate :-)
Great, video! These are great airplanes. Though sub-sonic, they can go pretty fast and very maneuverable. Thanks for posting!
The AV 8B doesn't need to be a supersonic jet since its main job is CAS, not the air to air combat.
wish it was longer!!
trident3b wtf is that supposed to mean, ace?? Did your husband let u post that prating retort?
Very, very cool footage! Thanks for sharing. The approach to landing was especially interesting to someone interested in eventually building a VTOL of sorts... Keep up the good work!
Meanwhile on the headset,
I'm like a biiiiird, I always fly alway..
Great footage!
Impresionante y maravilloso . Muchas Felicidades .
This is what the UK has always been capable of.
Marvellous artifice, and invention!
Especially our dratted government canning the thing in 2010... :-/
That is so awesome you rule man!!!!!
So the Harrier does everything. Were they used in Desert Storm? How long does it take to become a Harrier Pilot?
Wow amazing flying.
i flew one of those to the moon and my commander was made of cheese, the blue guy at the top of the ladder waved his nose at me and we all jumped into warm marmalade and pilchards
If you watch very closely you can see the G-suit on his thigh inflating when he does the high "g" turns.
Awesome Harriers........the end of an era.
What was cool to see in Iraq as an Army Aviator was seeing the lower enlisted crew chiefs taking their Harriers to the test stand and sitting in the pilots seat alone, doing engine checks running it up and down. Could have taken off, was chained but still amazing since in the army you don't see that.
I served with a Harrier squadron in the late 80s. Qualified maintenance personnel would "high power" check the engines after and engine change before the pilot would take it out for a spin. I guess we were more "expendable" if something blew up!
Scott Chandler
Lol
***** If that was the case in the USMC, these jets would NEVER fly! Our pilots just have more faith in their techs and mechs I guess.
They are called low power 0-40% or high power 0-100%+ runs. Usually done to duplicate maintenance gripes or trouble shoot systems. We also did them to test new engines. I did a few in my time in the Corps. Exhilarating experience but you gotta be in your toes watching the numbers
Sounds like a vacuumcleaner. Is it made by Dyson?
I heard the Harrier is one of the most difficult fighter jet to pilot
, is it true ?
seen one land Akrotiri air show, a few years back, makes a hell of a racket on take off !!
Great vid!
Are Harriers ground attack aircraft?
Those are some pretty serious skills right there!
Gotta love them flyboys/girls, especially flygirls.
How high is the G force in a jet? If u start?
AWESOME!
Nothing more dangerous than a 'Devil Dog" in the air. Semper Fi'.
THAT WAS FUCKING COOL AS ALL GET OUT..WHAT A AMAZING PEACE OF EQUIPMENT....DAMN
awesome aircraft, lucky for someone to fly them daily, lucky for others to observe.
Spot on fella. I'm a Brit and an aircraft geek so I'm naturally proud of this aircraft. It was, after all, a British invention, and it's still nice to see the Yanks using something of ours for a change!
too true. Not only supplying the US armed forces with superior weaponry, we also buy US built aircraft and land vehicles, improve them with decent radar and weaponry, and resell it back to the US. Pretty good for British Engineering id say.
Trust the Marines to stick to proven designs. This canopy has the best view I have seen on a fighter aircraft.
nice one...love how non jocks critisize what theyve never done themselves..
Thanks for the tips i will be doing the D of E not sure about air cadets but maybe.
Every time I watched one take off from onboard the ship, especially at night it seemed like the most dangerous type of launch we do in Naval aviation.
Is the grid glass over him is for ejecting the pilot?
i think its for heating the glass so it dont frost
Its det cord basically, shatters the canopy, demisting is done with air (to put it simply, all things aircraft can have a huge explanation).
It is a antenna
Sigh. I'm a fighter jet mechanic, its not an antenna...
Jay Howie You are a fake and a liar.
Awesome !
A legend!
Brilliant video and aircraft. Wonder why the pilot shakes his head in disappointment right after touching down?
i think it was more of a "thank god i didn't crash" kind of thing. i imagine its not too easy landing it on that ship
Simply bad ass Marine!
Thanks, it is great! Спасибо!
British Engineering and American Skill , it dont matter what anyone else thinks, i for one am happpy we are partners , and if people dont like it ---- Well lets say i'm sorry for you !!
Agree. Cheers!
I am so happy for you !
Dawie Van Emmenes Bloody great piloting, And yes USA and the Brits all the way, the closest allies the world has ever known!
so u think only americans could fly a jet like that. It is all about money.... richers countries reach more
thats a fair comment, althought the origina aircraft was British, anyway it dosnt really matter cos i stand by my original statement
Does anyone know what kind of gloves he is wearing? They don't look like standard Nomex...
my dream job..speechless
Amazing video, thanks!
And why can't all there rest of you just enjoy the show - instead of "traitors" and "they built it and we made it better" and such? And what difference does it make who did what on the plane? UK and the US put money into the project at different times, which meant one or the other continued to develop it - but the Harrier is still a very unique plane in that it is so far the most successful VTOL/STOL military craft, and the first VTOL/STOL that has been used in war in large numbers. That has presumably been a great learning experience for military in the UK, the US and the other countries that use the Harrier - how you use such an aircraft most effectively, and what strengths and limitations it has.
I guess the more recent VTOL/STOL designs have more than just taken a quick glance at the Harrier when they laid out the initial designs.
what does he do at 0:20 ? ive seen a lot of pilots in videos do that
retracting the landing gear.
The headshake on touchdown.
We’ve all been there!
i still find it baffling why we haven't adapted the ICAS for approach on aircraft carriers? i understand that the target is rolling/pitching but with todays tech we should find a way of compensation
can't remember where I was reading he article but it was about a new Landing navigation system for the Nimitz class and GRF class. Was supposed to help pilots a lot on pitching/rolling deck.
thats so awesome im going to jjoin the airfouce becuase of this video
WOW!
I feel like I was there,in the cabin!
What is that metal bar on top of the glass? is that for breaking the glass in case of ejecting?
Antenna
ELECTROSTATIC ION ENGINES Actually, that is not an antenna, it's a wire that contains small portions of explosive that is used for breaking the glass in case of ejection.
NikolaJXPL
Don't think so.
ELECTROSTATIC ION ENGINES Are you stupid?! You think you know everything! That is a (MDC) Miniature Detonating Cord and is used on VTOL planes that have zero zero ejection seats, zero altitude and zero speed! on normal aircrafts, in flight there is wind resistance and speed which is important in case of ejection, when the glass "door" lifts up a bit, it get torn from the plane by wind resistance while in VTOL planes, they could be at any altitude but zero speed and therefore no wind passing by that is not enough wind resistance to tear the glass from the plane. Oh, and the facing up antenna doesn't make much sense you dumbass.
NikolaJXPL
You don't know much about how antenna's work do you? Besides the canopy is hinged in the front on the F-22 and F-35s.They all blow the canopy before ejecting.
that helmet reminds of minecraft. lol
You know when I see these aircraft take off and land vertical it reminds me of those SCFI movies like Aliens where there going to different plants....really cool.
What a machine!
TOTALLY COOL!
Wow, thats amazing
Awesome..................
i dont know where the eject is in these things but it looks like that guy waiting while the other was landing had his hand on it at the end of the tape.
I see a lot of videos showing the A-10 doing CAS but isn't that what the AV-8B was suppose to do?
Different services, different missions. The A-10, a USAF plane, is specialized for anti-tank & CAS, with much emphasis on protection, large payload, and long loiter time (its relatively slow as a consequence). The Marines' AV-8B is more of a general-purpose "Jack of all trades," with sacrifices made in each of those areas for the sake of VTOL. It's much faster, and has been used effectively as a fighter, however it compares poorly against the A-10 in those particular details...but it can operate from ships & very small landing zones near the battle zone. Their missions overlap, but neither one could really replace the other.
Don't forget, A-10's can't land and take off from carriers.
xAFKNinjax can't*
xAFKNinjax but then again, you don't need an A10 in the middle the pacific...
I love the way all pilots look like they are drinking a hot chocolate in a arm chair.
Not pulling 9+g in banked turns and climbing at 10,000ft a minute!