yeah, the Harriers, most cool... :)
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yeah, the Harriers, most cool... :)
I think I recognize that airfield...it's where I worked...I use to sit in a testing cockpit in one of the buildings and target the Naval Air Station across the runways. Oh, what evil thoughts would run through my mind. They always warned us not to step in front of the rig because it would cook us.
Well, yes, in a way the VTOL capabilities of the Harrier were a precursor to thrust vectoring, but it wasn't actually used much as such in-flight, plus that turning the thrust nozzles downward or forward was not as intuitive/quick to operate as in the flight controls of a modern jet fighter with thrust vectoring. And of course, the vectoring is only vertical, not vertical and horizontal, as in these modern thrust-vectoring jets. But yes, the Harrier was probably the daddy of them all. ;)
That said, I don't know whether the VTOL version of the F-35 can fly in reverse, though. In fact, I think it can't. Its vertical thrust comes from a separate and fixed, horizontally rotating "ducted fan" behind the cockpit, in combination with turning the exhaust of the turbofan engine 90° downward. The Harrier on the other hand has four exhausts that can be turned forward by about 8° or so from the perfectly downward direction, whereby the pure jet from the Pegasus turbofan passes through two of the exhausts while the clean air passes through the two other exhausts. With all four exhausts pointing down, the Harrier pretty much operates like a helicopter. :)
still pretty cool... :)
It is. :) I still have a (fairly unscathed) Dinky Toys Harrier (in its original box) from when I was about 9 years old. It bears a blue and green camouflage pattern, with a white underside. It has a locking slider switch on the back by which you can extend or retract the landing gear, although the supporting pylons on the wings must be operated "manually". ;)
It looks like this one below ─ note: this is not mine, though.
nice toy...I can't believe it, this is like the really old days...youse people are going to get me all wound up about who has the biggest jet... :)
Between the ages of twelve and fifteen, I built model aircraft kits. Some of those were quite big. The biggest kit I had was not an actual airplane ─ and it was my dad who built it for me, because I had fine motor skill problems and I would always make a mess out of the glue ─ but instead, it was a Saturn V rocket. You could separate the individual stages, and it also had a moon lander inside. :)
really slick...you know what, I could never handle the finer things either...which is why I defaulted to Frankenstein and Superman...and getting high but not on glue...I left that to some of my friends. :)
Actually Sid, I noticed that...The Raptor didn't have the full style that the Russian Jet did...but still pretty impressive.
I'm not an expert, but I did talk to some RAF veterans in various aviation museums in the south of England and read a bit about the Harrier's history. If I recall, they mentioned the thrust vectoring capabilities (even if only horizontally) of the Harrier as one of the reasons it was actually vicious and very hard to beat in a dogfight, despite the lack of supersonic capabilities. It was more than a match for the admittedly older jets the Argentinians had during the Falklands war for instance. I might be wrong here, but that is my vague recollection on the matter.
I love a silent song, an engaging tune of silence, universes hum as background.
So i may sing back Gods reflection n awe.
Saint Aianawa are you Okay I hear.
Feel fear dear one, feel fear.
Y so Y, R yonder not towards love me a callous light bolt nay tears call you.
Tis not your fear so feel dear one.
Your not hear to not experience know pain without so bid me.
A hidden talent, Aianawa? Poetry...I know you're a Capricorn, so I'll ask if you were born at Midnight, give or take a couple of hours... :)... If you're brave enough, let me do your chart... :)
Shaken n stirred to open n explore to needle's eye dare
Spoken with calls of needs n shares with tears 4 who 4 who
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While chuckling, annoy gently rubs me shoulders, many critical thinkers and know thyself knowers, nowadays understand the simple daily 4AM mainstream news narrative and how it came about plus it's usage n controlls.
Finding this out at first is a major trigger usually, lotsa anger of being fooled and emotionally manipulated, conTROLLED and trolled.
Being freed while not knowing you were not free usually has one defending their unknown jail, their well prepped prison, their mind well comfy within the hive AND love wins just like God wins we win.