New Harrier Low Flypast

[MOI5E]

dayym thats goin fasst

[guionlawes]

They got in trouble for that LOL! i read about it. The RAF pilot wasn't supposed to do that they were just entertaining our guys :)

[Wolfgamer94]

@guionlawes wasnt that AV-8B Harrier II USMC ?

[IndigoSolution]

Harrier inbound.

[DeagleShotz]

lol i bet the rag heads hate it when they hear that plane coming

[archolman]

@DeagleShotz. You don't really have time to hear it coming! It's just there & gone!

[stephenpprice]

Go RAF! shame we arent rocking these aircraft anymore, theyd be great for Libya.

[Eyeball1975]

That was like a subliminal message of a harrier! Saw it for about 1 frame and heard it. That was sweet :)

[rourkeaj]

What a job!

[805flyks]

FFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK­KKKKKK!!!!!

[MrMoorkey]

LOL 'Show of force authorised...BRING IT ON!!!'

[strikerwyatt]

want to see me fly by them, wana see me do it again.

[eransmoler]

DAMN HE FAST!!!!!!!

[ian197325]

Pretty sure it's an RAF Harrier. Think the RAF's version has 4 pylons on each wing where as, to my knowledge the US version has 3.

[MrMoorkey]

@ian197325 On the money! It's a RAF Harrier. The out-rigger pylons are the give-away (these are only used for air-to-air weapons, or air-to-air drill / acquisition units)

[SpiderDroid2]

holy shit trainny!

[fishfinderish]

Wicked footage, managed to pause it and see the jet.

[L0LxGamiing]

Now you she him, now you don't lol

[ALLERTORLOVER69]

it pulled mach 1

[footballmad85]

@ALLERTORLOVER69 It didn't pull mach 1. This is a American harrier The AV-8B variant and it can't fly at mach one. And certainly not so low, Harrier don't have the aerodynamics to fly top speed so low (To much drag).

[DamnGoodOJ]

i just shit my self.

[Rezz909]

LOL, nice!!

[Pilotguyr6]

WOW that was badass..... WOW and upside down MOM!!!

[ProfessorMatthew]

And I'm not saying the RAF didn't/doesn't fly Harriers in Afghanistan.

[ProfessorMatthew]

Considering these are American soldiers in an American AO, and Marines are flying Harriers in Afghanistan, it stands to reason this is a Marine Harrier. In all my time in Afghanistan, I didn't see a single British Harrier, only Marine Harriers. I will give it to the RAF and RN though. Their helicopter pilots did fly insanely low and fast.

[ant182006]

@ProfessorMatthew Just because they are American forces it does not mean they will be solely supported by American Aircraft. The air support will come from the nearest availiable aircraft regardless of it's nationality. Nearly all availiable RAF & RN Harriers are on deployment in Afghan.

[SinDawg030]

@ant182006 WERE on deployment. Fucking traitors in charge sold them off for chump change to the USMC when they were working perfectly find and have left us without seaborne CAS for years.

GOVERNMENT! Y U SO MILITARILY RETARDED?!?! ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)

[y512516]

Only Brits have the guts for this shit

[ProfessorMatthew]

@y512516 And Marines fuck stick.

[tplowden51]

bad ass

[ghosty121]

I giggled like a school girl

[RopperAudio]

Good old British Engineering.

[banddude121]

@RopperAudio Rolls Royce hell yeah!

[pugzkiller4321]

Wow I am proud to be american now

[gone2ground]

@pugzkiller4321 You are right to be proud to be American. However, the Harrier is a British plane with a British (RR Pegasus) engine. This particular plane was a British RAF harrier.

God bless the UK & USA

[traetacp]

PhrynosomaTexas what jet do you fly? and where are you stationed? air force i presume?

[sladesyd]

Please everyone stop comparing MW2 to real life things

[ApocalipsalMikey]

The Harrier is such a bullshitty jet... when I saw it in mw2 after it had been nearly two years after it's decommission, i just gave up on that game... besides mw2 is in 2016 so that would be 8 years...

[W1LL528]

im not bein a spoil sport here but actually hes no where near the speed of sound this isnt an original of this video its been speeded up, for the real one im pritty sure its Afghanistan low fly by...

[nosrebluccela24]

@W1LL528

actually its not sped up you would know it wouldnt sound as good. and he already broke the sound barrier you dont hear him until after you cant see him. hes going at least twice the speed of sound

[W1LL528]

@nosrebluccela24 no seriously it is sped up.... ill send u a link to the real video

[Yoshimitsu1993]

@W1LL528

then i wanna congratiolate the guy walking right as the harrier passes on being able to walk exactly 0.5 the normal speeding up it looks like he walks normally so they can fool us that it goes fast?

[W1LL528]

@Yoshimitsu1993 my god..... type in the search bar afgan low fly its the same start picture as this video so you should spot it if you have alittle common sense which im starting to doubt reading your comment again.... jesus christ some people are morons!

[Yoshimitsu1993]

@W1LL528

well now i see, you said previously: ill send a link, but you never did so... <3 how you go roid raging over this video where it only goes a bit faster and the sound lags

[W1LL528]

@Yoshimitsu1993 you really are a moron the reply was to nosrebluccela24 you fucking dip shit.... the links on his profile btw.

[PhrynosomaTexas]

@nosrebluccela24 I don't see that the vid is sped up unless they did it precisely at fly over, but it doesn't matter. You are incorrect in assuming he broke the sound barrier x2. If you had been around many jet aircraft you would know that even a subsonic jet can sneak up and may not be heard until after it passes. This is how the Blue Angels perform "sneak passes" which are not allowed to be performed supersonic at airshows but they produce the same effect if you are directly in front of them.

[fidan2fast]

harrier, what harrier? oh wait, I blinked

[SGTSnakeUSMC]

The AV-8B gets close to mach, but only heard of one pilot doing it in a dive. The plane is not aerodynamically designed for mach speeds. And, to add to Texas' comment, mach barrier decreases with altitude.

[bigwhiteyeti]

That must have been fairly close to the speed of sound judging by how little noise it made before it went overhead.

[mkIIrtv05]

holy shit, he's fucking low

[UKParkFlyer]

Royal Air Force are the best at low flying!

[draculapw]

their the best at a lot of things! no ones as good as the diamond 9!!!

[josephschmitt66]

He flies like me in Ace Combat LOL!!

some ace Huh?

he was well trained.

and my dad told me when he was back in the air force: 1 A-10

flew pretty close to my dads head while my dad was standing from a safe distance from the danger zone.

and the pilot waved Hi or Hello.

you know how these Americans fly.

they fly crazy like they are in the

U.S. Air force thunder birds aerobatic team.

[draculapw]

This is the RAF not American

[SamuraiPie8111]

i could be american, brits and americans trade planes sometimes

[Justme993993]

No they don't! I was working with harriers for 3 years and we never once got an American AV8B! They exchange pilot's but not the aircraft.

[Drew927]

that looked like it was animated

[Terrafirmia]

He's just going fast enough for the Planes noise to be a bit behind thats all.

[draculapw]

Hence the speed of sound barrier.........

[jvallow]

harriers dont go supersonic

and even if he was going supersonic, he was so low that the the guy standing on the humvee would have been violently knocked off the top of it

[TheMonkeyBrothers]

wow!! bloody fast!

[mpwelk]

The delay is a technical glitch in the editing. This is not a supersonic aircraft. Even if it were flying at Mach 1 or above, the delay would still be imperceptible at this distance.

[boatrat]

Yah - If he was goin Mach 1 at that distance, lotsa things would be "imperceptable" for a while after that.

LOL

[Reds1500]

no it would sound like that

[Quickwinklongsstare]

lol harriers cant go supersonic =P

[meepmeepjeep]

They can at low altidude.

[nickjb01]

Low altitude is WORSE if you want to fly faster. The harrier isn't capable of doing supersonic speeds anyway.

[draculapw]

Bullshit you look at the F15 and tell me it flys faster higher! Theres more atmosphere low down and the jets need it for friction behind them. That is what gives it thrust. The higher you are the weaker the atmosphere

[PhrynosomaTexas]

Need it for friction behind them?You really don't know what the fuck you are talking about do you?Low altitude=higher drag/lower airspeed. High altitude=less drag/higher airspeed. It costs more fuel to run low altitude, that's why they don't call 150ft. "cruising altitude". I'm a pilot. The F-15 goes faster the higher it is. Christ read wikipedia or something...

[mackychloe]

@PhrynosomaTexas. how low would that bird have to go b4 the drag would lift them guys up????

[PhrynosomaTexas]

@mackychloe Depends on how fast it was going. This is highly speculative but it would likely rather knock them down. In order to actually lift people off the ground, it would have to be low enough to nearly hit them in the head I think. More than likely they would be blown over by exhaust or the compression of ground effect, unless they were sucked into a nacelle. If it were a B-1 flying this low and fast, I could see wingtip vortices picking someone up and dropping them on their head though.

[mackychloe]

@PhrynosomaTexas. makes perfect sense. i was told (as a child) that if you get to close to any transport that is speeding - you would be dragged into it's tailwind, but i guess it was a pracautionary tale. lol. although i completely understand your comment ive never heard the word "nacelle" before....pls explain! thanks

[PhrynosomaTexas]

@mackychloe If you get too close behind and below any large aircraft, particularly off the wingtips, you may be thrown about by wingtip vortices. This is a caution to other aircraft and why commercial planes have 2 minutes minimum separation on take off or landing to allow vortices to disperse. If you are directly behind, you may be blown over by exhaust. If you are too close in front, you may be sucked into an intake (nacelle)

[PhrynosomaTexas]

@PhrynosomaTexas A nacelle is the engine housing.

[mackychloe]

@PhrynosomaTexas. ok now i understand, thanks a bunch....or, as i'm learning german: tausand danke, leibe lang und gluckich.

[PhrynosomaTexas]

@mackychloe "long bodies"? Did you mean "liebe or "leben" lang? And I think you meant "glucklich". Ich studiert vier jahre in der Schule, und hat dort fur zwei jahre gewohnt...

...Bitte und

tschuss

[mackychloe]

@PhrynosomaTexas. EPIC!!!! i tried to look smart & end up looking foolish lol, oh well you live & learn, is there anything you don't know.......how fast can you solve a rubix cube? in closing; any advice you can offer in regard to my german studies would be grately appreciated.  Ich danke Ihnen.

[PhrynosomaTexas]

@mackychloe Everyone has to step out and and take a risk to learn. That's not foolish. If your too scared to try you don't learn. I have studied many areas. Started flight lessons at 15 paid for myself. Bought my own plane at 19. Taught myself auto mechanics and air condition repair, have studied criminal and constitutional law, and now I practice veterinary medicine as a wildlife rescuer...but I have NEVER been able to solve a Rubix cube. I never had the patience. I would rather read.

[PhrynosomaTexas]

@mackychloe As far as your studies I have no real gems of info to offer, other than conjugation is a bitch, as well as having to learn when to use der,die,das. When you can actually THINK in German it's pretty exciting when you first realize you are doing it. I have also studied Russian but am not as fluent. Russian is MUCH harder. The alphabet is just the start of your problems. I was once told by an Army colleague that I spoke Russian with a German accent. That blew me away man!

[mackychloe]

@PhrynosomaTexas. Thanks for the confidence boost. i think if i knuckle-down & apply myself i'll get it eventually. i just typed "german conjugation" into a goo' search & now my heads hurts lol. as far as cubing goes you'd be surprised how easy it actually is! but like the millions of other people i had somebody teach me the fundamentals (Dan brown - youtube). Final thoughts: i hope that in the future i'll be sending you a message written entirely in German. Thanks again.

[omgitshardtofindanid]

@PhrynosomaTexas and hence why Concorde cruised at a variable altitude of somewhere between 51000 ft and 66000 ft depending on the temp, rather than 150ft hehe.

[PhrynosomaTexas]

@omgitshardtofindanid Well I should modify my statement a little. You can save some fuel traveling low over the ground, in "ground effect", but this is dangerous for more reasons than just being low to the ground. To be in ground effect you have to be about 1 wingspan above ground, and it only works well if the terrain is consistent. For practical purposes it is more economical on fuel and safer to run high altitude where air is thin and drag is lower.

[ihavekankles]

@PhrynosomaTexas 

[JMWraith]

@PhrynosomaTexas ur a pilot in ur opinion wat is the best military gunship

[PhrynosomaTexas]

@JMWraith your question is highly opinion oriented, and depends on what the mission is and so many other questions. I am assuming you mean helicopter gunship? because otherwise I am going to say AC-130. 20mm Miniguns, 40mm cannon and a 105 howitzer mounted on a plane is a winner every time.

[MovieMad007]

@PhrynosomaTexas Wouldn't read wikipedia - its not trust worthy! There is never any references! We were taught this at uni - to not trust Wiki! What annoys me though is that half of the low passes are only for show - they know the guys on certain areas have their cameras at the ready so they waste fuel and risk their lives unnecessarily by doing these dumbass stunts! In these days of expenses and high fuel costs. Everyone can see thats not operational - just showing off!How can they justify it?

[PhrynosomaTexas]

@MovieMad007 It depends on the content and who is doing the writing. Many of the entries on things like aircraft are accurate if not highly accurate. There are people like me who are sticklers for accuracy and point it out if it's not. Besides, nobody said wiki should be your sole source. Yes, they waste fuel and it can be dangerous..but it's a combat zone and these guys have to blow off steam for morale sometime and get an adrenaline boost. Lighten up about it. We blow far more $ at airshows.

[y512516]

@PhrynosomaTexas

But will you dare to fly this low?

[PhrynosomaTexas]

@y512516

I will, and I have. Every time at landing and takeoff, and this is arguably far more dangerous when the aircraft is low and SLOW rather than low and fast.

[AdrianAir31]

@PhrynosomaTexas

You need to read up on your theory of flight. Drag has nothing to do with flying at low or high altitudes as it's directly related to the a/c moving through the air. Airspeed at various altitudes is related to density and temperature, NOT drag. As altitude increases, density of the air decreases. While Indicated altitude remains the same as altitude increases, TRUE altitude increases. Those 19 "thumbs up" you received are others who apparently know nothing about aviation...

[PhrynosomaTexas]

@AdrianAir31 Wow what a jealous prick & total moron UR! It's you who needs schooling on "theory" of flight. You sound smart but it's a farce and I bet youre no pilot either. Drag has everything to do with this discussion. Drag is one of the fundamental 4 forces acting on an airfoil in motion. Reduced drag comes into play in ground effect (doubtful you know what that is) and is also reduced at altitude due to reduced air density.Hit the books again MORON! (skybrary.aero/index.php/Fligh­t_Envelop)

[19scorpion76]

@PhrynosomaTexas

Higher altitude , faster and less fuel..

Yep very true, quite often air cover tasked for support will come in from very high , A) Because they can get on tasking quicker , B) Stay on tasking longer with the saved fuel from flying higher and finally C) The talitubbies can't hear that you have air if you keep it high until it's needed to drop some shit on them.

[Mw2quickscopesxX]

@PhrynosomaTexas you aint no pilot sun!

[PhrynosomaTexas]

@Mw2quickscopesxX Uh, first of all I think you meant "son", you moron. Secondly, would you care to produce evidence of your statement; or would you care to debate me using your stellar wit and spelling skills?

[shadowr434]

@Mw2quickscopesxX There are plenty of want to be's on here but what makes you say hes not? Soldiers and pilots in our military are bored between duties and could be on youtube.

[dienkonig33]

Weaker atmosphere = weaker air resistance.

[archolman]

@draculapw. I hope you have learned better by now.

[sidstille]

more drag.. more air

[racerDOHC16]

i would like to say that some of it could be from the vid itself audio lag you know

[kkcp23]

if it was supersonic, you would hear the sonic boob and the sound of that this close to the camera would have made the camera fall out of his hands.

[tabithabanker]

you cant get supersonic that low to the ground,the air is to thick.

[nath700]

Can't fly supersonic? It is flying fast though and it's not that hard for a time delay, commercial flights get a small time delay everyday and they don't go as fast as that when they are coming in to land that's for sure

[rickthepilotguy]

No man, the Harrier can't fly supersonic.

[TheFogOfWar]

yeah nawa,i love it when the sounds delayed

[woodywoodgreaves]

fuckin hell

[nawa06]

i think thats because the jets goin faster than the speed of sound.

[scottyboy15]

awesome huge time delay!