yeah, the Harriers, most cool...
yeah, the Harriers, most cool...
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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.
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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.
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still pretty cool...
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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Actually Sid, I noticed that...The Raptor didn't have the full style that the Russian Jet did...but still pretty impressive.
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