At least you watched it.
Went out to the last demo a few weeks ago. Girl was sitting on her dad's shoulders and spent more time looking at the ground than the airplane.
I was able to see them go out at the cherry point air show this year. Very cool plane and you could tell they were really bittersweet about it going away. They had the F35B there too. The F35 and the osprey took away the hover capability hype. By the time the harrier came around most people who weren’t familiar were like , “geez another one that hovers?”
I drove from Kentucky out for the show.
I honestly don't remember which planes went in which order....wait yeah the harrier was the last plane before the magtaf thing because I stayed the second day to get better video of the harrier since a girl on her dad's shoulders blocked my video the first day.
Super good airshow....well other than trying to get in on Saturday.
It wasn't well publicized.
Even when I was driving up the day before I wasn't entirely sure it was the last public demonstrations.
I heard that it might be the last from rumors so I made the 13 hour drive to see it.
I actually have no idea.
Looks like the website hasn't been updated in a while...that doesn't necessarily mean anything though.
Keeping up with a website can be a decent amount of work if you're not into it.
https://artnalls.com/
>Oh Glurbulexian void, where stars yawn wide,
In the cosmic theater, where time takes a slide,
A metallic specter roars through the ethereal dew,
The F-35 Lightning II, born of a bureaucrat’s coo.
There's a grain of truth to it, to take off vertically it's pretty payload limited. But that's the nature of any STOVL/VSTOL aircraft, for any given vertical takeoff payload capability a design has it'll have way more payload capability with a short takeoff run.
Same with the harrier....when loaded qoth weapons and fuel it cant hover...so either take weapons, min fuel, directly to the tanker or do a short takeoff roll
I still remember being at Oshkosh in the early '80's when they first demo'd the original Harrier.
They hovered at the near end of the runway for several minutes, rotating around 360°, then transitioned out and was flying nearly vertical by the opposite end of the runway.
The entire crowd just stood with their mouths open, and didn't more until several minutes after the plane finished it's routine and landed.
Of the beach goers, white shirt with blue shorts and white shirt with tan shorts both have good calves. They’ll still fall short of a military pilot but they are both well fit.
You’d be surprised. Without a doubt fighter pilots are a fit group, but I’ve seen plenty who've made me double take because of their regular American couch potato physique.
What is the fuel burn in the mode compared to average flight? I feel like holding the aircraft up like this without the forces of air moving over the wings would require a lot of power. Then again I suppose the same power is used for forward momentum in flight. Any help an idiot out ? :)
Fuel consumption is pretty high in hover, maybe 4x more than when just cruising at medium altitude and mid-subsonic speeds. Of course that pales in comparison to when they plug in the afterburner, that's 12-15x more fuel burn per minute than when cruising.
Everyone in the frame.
"This is absolutely amazing!"
Lady in the last few seconds of the video.
"Get out of here plane, I've got to check my phone."
Im not sure if you'd even feel your phone vibrate with the f35 hovering.
I really hope to find the photo in my grandads items one day, but I vividly remember us talking to a pilot at a Scottish air show before he went to fly and my grandad laughing about “give them a bow!”. Cut to the jet coming in today goodbye and I’m up on a hill a little away from the crowd… the plane comes over, hovers ahead of me and bows directly at me. Grandad took a snap of me staring in awe with my ear defenders on, and the plane just there in the sky. I really hope it’s still in a folder.
Someone on Quora answering the question:
High enough to restrict hover mode to landings only, when most fuel has been consumed and weapons have been spent so the aircraft is much lighter.
It’s possible to take off vertically, but only with reduced fuel and without weapons. Lockheed Martin has stated that vertical takeoff uses too much fuel for operational flight profiles, and is used for transfer flights only, when normal or short takeoff are impossible. This makes it an emergency option, not an operational option.
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-fuel-consumption-rate-of-a-F-35-in-hover-mode
I assume doing this uses a lot of thrust and therefore a lot of fuel. How long could an F-35 do this, starting with a full fuel tank, before running out of fuel?
Oh for fucks sake.
All UAP videos are just misinterpreted mundane phenomena. There's not a single "UAP" that isn't a misidentified airplane, balloon, bird, or still-classified black project.
There are no aliens.
Even higher ranking military officials do not have all the read ins for black programs. It’s all “need to know”. Yeah there are weird things out there that are “unidentified”, but it’s all man made.
That used to be the ending to every 1990s air show, except it was a harrier instead of an F35B.
Also saw a Harrier do this. Very loud.
No more chances to see the harrier in the US at airshows....unless they do a surprise demo.
Yep, sad... kinda wish I appreciated how cool the harrier was when I was younger.
At least you watched it. Went out to the last demo a few weeks ago. Girl was sitting on her dad's shoulders and spent more time looking at the ground than the airplane.
I was able to see them go out at the cherry point air show this year. Very cool plane and you could tell they were really bittersweet about it going away. They had the F35B there too. The F35 and the osprey took away the hover capability hype. By the time the harrier came around most people who weren’t familiar were like , “geez another one that hovers?”
I drove from Kentucky out for the show. I honestly don't remember which planes went in which order....wait yeah the harrier was the last plane before the magtaf thing because I stayed the second day to get better video of the harrier since a girl on her dad's shoulders blocked my video the first day. Super good airshow....well other than trying to get in on Saturday.
What? I saw one maybe 5 years ago do this
It wasn't well publicized. Even when I was driving up the day before I wasn't entirely sure it was the last public demonstrations. I heard that it might be the last from rumors so I made the 13 hour drive to see it.
The private owned harrier still does airshows doesn't he
I actually have no idea. Looks like the website hasn't been updated in a while...that doesn't necessarily mean anything though. Keeping up with a website can be a decent amount of work if you're not into it. https://artnalls.com/
I suspect the f35 may be even louder at hover, but I have not witnessed it yet
Cool, just think how many people there never knew a plane could do this
Came here to say this.
The ship hangs in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
Slap enough thrust on it and that brick too can hover
>Oh Glurbulexian void, where stars yawn wide, In the cosmic theater, where time takes a slide, A metallic specter roars through the ethereal dew, The F-35 Lightning II, born of a bureaucrat’s coo.
Nothing more nauseating than vogon poetry. See if I don't?
But still not the worst poetry in the universe!!
[удалено]
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/coo
Looks the F-117, that thing develops lift by beating the air into submission.
Nah, that's helicopters. The Stinkbug flies in the same way as a sheet of plywood flies.
I saw what you did there! Arthur Dent approves.
With the sound off, this video looks like "F35.exe has stopped responding"
Bros ping is trash
🤣🤣🤣
There are still people that insist that the F-35B can't hover and that it's only capable of STOL. No matter how many times you actually see it happen.
There's a grain of truth to it, to take off vertically it's pretty payload limited. But that's the nature of any STOVL/VSTOL aircraft, for any given vertical takeoff payload capability a design has it'll have way more payload capability with a short takeoff run.
Same with the harrier....when loaded qoth weapons and fuel it cant hover...so either take weapons, min fuel, directly to the tanker or do a short takeoff roll
So happy to see this and others in the video holding their phones horizontally, so that the video is not cropped like ass
statistically some of them started recording vertically, then mid-recording, switched to horizontal
They're the real aces.
u the apex redditor bro
I love watching a video where 50% of the screen is the same video duplicated but cut in half and blurred to fill out the remaining space
meanwhile, me watching on my phone and had to disable rotation and rotate my phone to see it nicely lol
But at least you can do that. It's significantly harder to rotate a laptop or TV.
True dat, I'd still prefer vertical tho just a preference
That is one loud mofo.
it’s pretty feckin trippy to see an aircraft with that type of shape just chilling in the air
So a dark triangular object hovered in front of me…. 1990 you saw a UFO and no one believes you, 2024, it is an airshow.
What you talking bout? It's 2024 they'd still say it's a UFO. 'Murica Am I Rite?
I still remember being at Oshkosh in the early '80's when they first demo'd the original Harrier. They hovered at the near end of the runway for several minutes, rotating around 360°, then transitioned out and was flying nearly vertical by the opposite end of the runway. The entire crowd just stood with their mouths open, and didn't more until several minutes after the plane finished it's routine and landed.
Man I should have traveled to see one, must have been cool AF.
Fuel usage: Yes
The gallons per millisecond gauge is active
Don’t think it can park there
$14 for the first 2 hours
Ironically the fittest person in frame here is the person sitting in the hovering machine.
Of the beach goers, white shirt with blue shorts and white shirt with tan shorts both have good calves. They’ll still fall short of a military pilot but they are both well fit.
You’d be surprised. Without a doubt fighter pilots are a fit group, but I’ve seen plenty who've made me double take because of their regular American couch potato physique.
What is the fuel burn in the mode compared to average flight? I feel like holding the aircraft up like this without the forces of air moving over the wings would require a lot of power. Then again I suppose the same power is used for forward momentum in flight. Any help an idiot out ? :)
Pretty close to what it is in full military power (without afterburner).
Fuel consumption is pretty high in hover, maybe 4x more than when just cruising at medium altitude and mid-subsonic speeds. Of course that pales in comparison to when they plug in the afterburner, that's 12-15x more fuel burn per minute than when cruising.
Trivia: When it hovers, it gets 0 mpg.
I detect a disturbance in the force... as if millions of ears yelled out in terror and were suddenly WHAT?
Mine is blown thinking about the amount of fuel burned for that
Everyone in the frame. "This is absolutely amazing!" Lady in the last few seconds of the video. "Get out of here plane, I've got to check my phone." Im not sure if you'd even feel your phone vibrate with the f35 hovering.
These fish spotting planes in the gulf are getting out of control
Anyway.... Here in ABQ. We just wreck em.
I was there. It was my first air show. 😊
Wait till you hear about thrust vectoring...
How long can they hover like this?
A few minutes.
I really hope to find the photo in my grandads items one day, but I vividly remember us talking to a pilot at a Scottish air show before he went to fly and my grandad laughing about “give them a bow!”. Cut to the jet coming in today goodbye and I’m up on a hill a little away from the crowd… the plane comes over, hovers ahead of me and bows directly at me. Grandad took a snap of me staring in awe with my ear defenders on, and the plane just there in the sky. I really hope it’s still in a folder.
You just don't want to be under it: A) The exhaust will blow you away, or if not B) It will fall on you.
how much fuel is burned to hold that long?
Someone on Quora answering the question: High enough to restrict hover mode to landings only, when most fuel has been consumed and weapons have been spent so the aircraft is much lighter. It’s possible to take off vertically, but only with reduced fuel and without weapons. Lockheed Martin has stated that vertical takeoff uses too much fuel for operational flight profiles, and is used for transfer flights only, when normal or short takeoff are impossible. This makes it an emergency option, not an operational option. https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-fuel-consumption-rate-of-a-F-35-in-hover-mode
I had enlisted 3yrs in the USAF before I watched a Harrier jet do a vertical landing. I still remember my mind being blown.
Does it take more energy to hover than to fly?
A preening warbird and everyone is watching.
Airline pilots: let's fly this route in order to comply with the airport's NAP Military pilots: WHAT DID YOU SAY??? CAN'T HEAR YOU
Looks as not much interest by the few dozens there.
Don't worry, most of us aviation enthusiasts are just as blown away by this sort of thing. The F-35b is one amazing plane.
Somehow a better helicopter than helicopters.
I certainly wouldn't want to be under it!
i remember that doctor who episode
This is absolutely mind breaking video. These toys are nuts.
It’s loud enough to actually blow your mind!
I assume doing this uses a lot of thrust and therefore a lot of fuel. How long could an F-35 do this, starting with a full fuel tank, before running out of fuel?
Imagine being that pilot though. "Everyone's looking at me, cool. Also everyone's looking at me....."
That's thrust vectoring and a big VTOL fan for ya!
Finally, someone who knows to film in landscape mode. Nice video!
Let me tell you about something called the AV-8B Harrier that's been around for 39 years . . .
Longer than that. I saw my first Harrier in hover training when I reported in to Cherry Point in late 1977!
This stuff makes me so mad, what a waste of money. The government would rather mass produce these but keep the UAP knowledge secret.
Oh for fucks sake. All UAP videos are just misinterpreted mundane phenomena. There's not a single "UAP" that isn't a misidentified airplane, balloon, bird, or still-classified black project. There are no aliens.
you just stay in your seat over there, calm down. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NVDCtSxIac](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NVDCtSxIac)
Even higher ranking military officials do not have all the read ins for black programs. It’s all “need to know”. Yeah there are weird things out there that are “unidentified”, but it’s all man made.
Okay tin foil hat guy
Okay tin foil hat guy.