Victory roll or screw-up?

[Kazzer]

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10150113735642761

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

You had me for a second. I was thinking tilt-rotor development accidents there. Funny. You know some ass is going to try that at altitude, when the squadron boss is not looking on. Oh, wait a minute ... those planes have play-back recorders now. Oh, well.

M

[Kazzer]

And -- lest you all forget - developed by The British!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Siddeley_Harrier

[crazygary]

Pretty impressive! Chicks really dig it when a flier does something cool for them!! Hope she was worth it!!

Me thinks a "spot" ( pun intended) check of the jet jocks' BVDs will tell if such a maneuver
was intentional, or an "OH SH*T!!"

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

And -- lest you all forget - developed by The British!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Siddeley_Harrier

Apples and Oranges, Mike! Harrier was way ahead of its time and a vital strike aircraft that does stuff no other ground-support airplane can do. But it's very hard to fly, burns a pilot out (few sorties per pilot per day) with the work-load, and does not have the systems or capabilites of the F-35. Time will tell as to the utility of this new aircraft. Let's see what the Marines and Air-Force does with the thing.

M

[Albion]

Just googled it, didnt know the front end wasnt connected to the main engine, so looks like the lift fan, lost lift and hence the loop.

Dave you have to wonder with modern technology if the applied modern control system to a harrier if it would be less tiring.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Just googled it, didnt know the front end wasnt connected to the main engine, so looks like the lift fan, lost lift and hence the loop.

Dave you have to wonder with modern technology if the applied modern control system to a harrier if it would be less tiring.

OK, you're pulling my leg. That video has to be a gag.

In that clip we see a guy suffering the most harrowing accident you can have in hover mode, he gets away with his skin, gets back into a hover, then figures, what the hell, I'm up in the air anyway, so why not fire-wall it and fly off into the wild blue?

In a way, the front fan is connected to the (only) main engine. Compressor bleed maybe?

I don't think there is a computer intelligence between the pilot and the Harrier control surfaces and throttle -- it's all on the pilot to fly the thing. Like the B-35, a fly-by-wire control interface would have made all the difference to this marginally stable vehicle.

M

[trout]

Not to be negative, but I think it is bogus. Photo trickery.

When I watched it there are a couple of things that struck me, one was the gray or haze that followed the airplane Here you can see it above the upside-down airplane.

Then the shadows seemed wrong. The location of the sun directly in front and the shadow on the helicopter is close to being directly underneath. When the airplane swings around the shadow is crisp, as in from a non-diffused light source. Yet the sun in the picture appears to be shielded by a thin cloud. The shadow would be diffused more or more blurry.
Those are my thoughts.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Got to :021 and you'll see a double-exposure. The F-35 and the Seahawk on deck - both seen when the F-35 should be well behind the helicopter.

Fake.

M

[thietkelogo]

it is nice