How the Harrier hovers

John Farley, explains, in detail, how the Harrier takes of vertically and maintains control whilst in the hover.
This is a clip from the video "Harrier: The Vertical Reality" An excellent and highly recommended piece of work.

John Farley first flew the P.1127 in 1964 while a test pilot at the Royal Aircraft Establishment. He spent 19 years contributing to the development of the Harrier, retiring as Chief Test Pilot BAe Dunsfold.
In 1990 he became the first Western test pilot to fly the MiG-29 fighter

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• Harrier
• Hover
• RAF
• RN
• Royal
• Air
• Force
• Navy
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• jet
• fighter

[bf1942acepilot]

how does it fly with negative dihedral?

[bryUK]

@bf1942acepilot Quite easily. Lots of aircraft have anhedral wings.

[Nikolai940]

fuck all call of duty comments

[bryUK]

@mercanaries3 Heaven forbid that the nation that created the language pronounces some words differently, even from one region to another.

Thank you for your invaluable contribution.

[40joel]

@bf1942acepilot positive dihedral gives you stability. It's not too stable

[OwnTrick]

enemy harrier above XD

[zaktan744]

@MrLaedis kthxbai pls

[bryUK]

@gethsoftware Finally, the Argentine Mirage III's were dedicated to air to air operations. However, after the first few encounters all resulted in losses, they were ordered to avoid the SHAR at all costs. In hind sight, a big mistake given the numerical difference.

The only jet they had which could carry anti-ship missiles (Exocet) was the Super Etandard). Mirage V's, A-4's and Pucara's were typically dedicated to air to ground operations with conventional bombs, rockets and guns.

[bryUK]

@gethsoftware Few corrections.The RN hadn't trained its pilots for that kind of thing for years. Their expected role, as part of NATO, was little more than day time interception of Soviet Tu-95's scouting for NATO fleets. SHARs also carried mixed loads, as they were used for both air to air and air to ground. They didn't have enough pylons to carry external fuel tanks + Sidewinders + Bombs/Rockets.

[gethsoftware]

@bryUK british knew how to use their harriers. argentine air force pretty much loaded its planes with anti-ship missiles. while harriers specificly where armed with anti-air weapons. allso british had trained for this sort of stuff for years.

[bryUK]

@boricuaboy24 Rather depends how's flying it and what its fighting against. The Sea Harrier FRS1 won every single one of its dogfights in the Falklands War, against faster and more agile Mirage IIIs.

[boricuaboy24]

@TruroCityBoy this thing wouldn't stand a chance in a dog fight, just saying

[MrLaedis]

They're pretty lethal weapons. All you need is a 7 killstreak too, easy enough. lol

[crispycritterz]

In a close in fight, Harriers are a brutal opponent.