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Did a hangar for Harriers @ Cherry point Marine Air base in NC. Seeing them stop in mid air freaked your brain out the first few times.
I was there when Hurricane Hugo was coming and the air base was evacuated. They had an active hangar beside our new one and all the planes that had not been cleared for service had to be quick tested. What they did was take 4-5 of them at a time and let them hover a few 100 feet off the ground, then brought them back down. This was 80-90's before cell phone cameras but that was an image I'll never forget.


Araysar Araysar was the harrier a superior air platform than the yak?
 
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Kajiimagi

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That's like asking if one wheelchair is superior to another
Don't know much about the yak but the harrier (as I understand it ) was very unstable in hover mode. I was really surprised to see it added to the F35 models.


EDIT: Oops forgot what thread I was in: GIS Unstable hover video

 
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Don't know much about the yak but the harrier (as I understand it ) was very unstable in hover mode. I was really surprised to see it added to the F35 models.


EDIT: Oops forgot what thread I was in: GIS Unstable hover video



All VTOL fighter jets were pretty shitty. Their main purpose was to be used as carrier planes. Russia experimented with that Yak for their navy but then just said fuck it, we barely have 1 working carrier anyways.
 
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All VTOL fighter jets were pretty shitty. Their main purpose was to be used as carrier planes. Russia experimented with that Yak for their navy but then just said fuck it, we barely have 1 working carrier anyways.
you mean amphibs, not carriers.

carriers have catapults and arresting gears which eliminates the need for VTOL.
Amphibs focus on VTOL jets and helicopters
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you mean amphibs, not carriers.

carriers have catapults and arresting gears which eliminates the need for VTOL.
Amphibs focus on VTOL jets and helicopters
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No I mean carriers, at least with Harriers in particular. The British aircraft carriers were much smaller than US ones, less than 1/5th of displacement of modern US carriers so they needed modern fighters that could utilize smaller carriers.

Even American amphibious ships are twice the tonnage of older UK aircraft carriers

So yeah, you're kinda right because UK builds such pathetic "carriers"
 
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that man is not only alive but his car came out relatively clean, compared to the other 4 ded

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oh actually he is a faggot ass jeep owner, i thought he was in sedan

fuck him
 
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Holy fuck

Lmao how drunk do you have to be to accelerate to 100 mph into a parking lot.
 
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