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To: Jacquerie

My roommate at embassy guard school was a Harrier ejection seat technician at Cherry Point. They called the Harriers “Dead Bugs” because when hovering, if one of the two Rolls-Royce engines malfunctions, the plane flips over like a dead bug.


42 posted on 04/03/2021 5:43:15 PM PDT by Salvavida
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To: Salvavida

The Harrier is a single engine aircraft with 4 nozzles that rotate. In earlier Harriers the nozzles individual controlled by the pilot which resulted in many dead bug incidents. This resulted in the AV-8B+ Model were a computer helped the pilot control the input of the nozzles and accident rates dropped.


45 posted on 04/04/2021 6:33:25 PM PDT by Trueblackman (I do more before 9 am than Joe Biden does all day. )
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