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VIDEO: Private Sea Harrier in emergency vertical landing
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| 15/11/07
| Graham Warwick
Posted on 11/15/2007 11:33:37 AM PST by Freeport
Edited on 11/17/2007 1:47:14 PM PST by Jim Robinson.
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The only privately owned Sea Harrier vertical/short take-off and landing fighter suffered a gear collapse when making an emergency landing at the US Navy's Patuxent River test centre after experiencing a hydraulic problem.
This video footage posted by Nalls Aviation, the US owner of the ex-Royal Navy BAE Systems Sea Harrier F/A-2, shows the 11 November emergency vertical landing on the hover grid at Pax River in Maryland.
(Excerpt) Read more at flightglobal.com ...
TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: hydrolicfailure; navair; paxriver; seaharrier
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Ouch. That hurt...
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posted on
11/15/2007 11:33:37 AM PST
by
Freeport
To: alfa6; Professional Engineer
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posted on
11/15/2007 11:38:29 AM PST
by
Samwise
(Anyone who really wants to be President isn't fit for the job.)
To: Freeport
Help. I have fallen and can’t get up.
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posted on
11/15/2007 11:40:05 AM PST
by
Ditto
(Global Warming: The 21st Century's Snake Oil)
To: Freeport
but it's not a reliable indication, I have since been told." ah,..ah,...err, any other indicators have a habit of not giving true indications?..Yeah I guess when you can climb out of the cockpit and roll off the wing...that might be an indication it's parked kinda leanin
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posted on
11/15/2007 11:40:31 AM PST
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: Freeport
That’s gonna ‘ding’ his wallet a bit. BTW, anybody know the current laws/regulations concerning the private ownership of ex-military aircraft? You don’t often hear about military jets in private hands. Darned few of them.
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posted on
11/15/2007 11:42:16 AM PST
by
Tallguy
(Climate is what you plan for, weather is what you get.)
To: Doogle
To: Doogle
He should try the “disabled parking” spot the next time.
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posted on
11/15/2007 11:44:29 AM PST
by
gathersnomoss
(General George Patton had it right.)
To: Freeport
This guy owns his own Harrier?
Dang... that really ups the ante for the “guys with cool toys” in the neighborhood.
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posted on
11/15/2007 11:44:41 AM PST
by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
To: Freeport
As I've heard it:
When it takes full power to taxi - you just might have forgotten to put your gear down before landing.
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posted on
11/15/2007 11:46:25 AM PST
by
Bob
To: Ramius
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posted on
11/15/2007 11:47:50 AM PST
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: Tallguy
There’s an operational F-18 in private hands, and at least one MiG-17.
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posted on
11/15/2007 11:48:32 AM PST
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: Freeport
20ft...18ft....*beep*...*beep*...16ft...*beep*...*beep*....
14ft....*beep*...beep*....CRASSSSSSSSHHHHHH!!...*RADIO TRANSMISSION*...SSZZHHHHH..oh yeah Art?, we forgot to tell ya, that altitude indicator isn’t reliable
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posted on
11/15/2007 11:49:16 AM PST
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: ArrogantBustard
And there used to be at least one two-seat MiG-21 trainer up in New England somewhere.
}:-)4
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posted on
11/15/2007 11:50:04 AM PST
by
Moose4
(When all else fails, read the instructions.)
To: getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL
MUST MAKE NIGHT FLIGHT FUN...
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posted on
11/15/2007 11:50:50 AM PST
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: Ramius
I have a riding lawnmower!
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posted on
11/15/2007 11:51:11 AM PST
by
ontap
(Just another backstabbing conservative)
To: Moose4
I think there’s at least one F-104 flying out there too.
The other one that I know of had an engine flame-out and since no one had ever lived through an F-104 dead stick landing, the pilot thought the better part of valor and punched out...
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posted on
11/15/2007 11:53:51 AM PST
by
Freeport
To: Ramius
:-)
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posted on
11/15/2007 11:59:10 AM PST
by
M203M4
(Rudy Giuliani 2008 - finally get all of the government you are paying for!)
Comment #18 Removed by Moderator
To: M203M4
I get the feeling that the garage doors behind that bird take a beating on spool-up, no?
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posted on
11/15/2007 12:03:21 PM PST
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
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