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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Oct 11, 2009
Description:
The Culpeper, Virginia ,airport had an airshow on 10 October. The star of the show was the only civilian-owned Harrier jump jet.
It's a high maintenance vehicle.
Date Taken:
Oct 11, 2009
Place Taken:
KCJR
Owner:
Don Maxwell
File Name:
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Kenneth Leonard - Oct 11,2009
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And a high skill vehicle. My understanding is that the earlier models required a higher than average pilot and many accidents happened when someone was out of the cockpit for a while and got rusty.
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Don Maxwell - Oct 11,2009
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That's what I've heard, too, Ken. I almost wrote a caption that the airplane eats people for that reason. This guy apparently has a lot of time in them. But he seemed rather cautious in flying this one. Didn't hover any lower than the video shows, although he did vector the thrust part way down for takeoff and landing.
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Matt Tucciarone - Oct 12,2009
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I was told the reason for not hovering low is that it would melt the asphalt runway. That is also why he did a short field take-off instead of a vertical one. I was also told that in hover mode it burns 400 gallons a min.
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Kenneth Leonard - Oct 12,2009
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Hovering low is also a very high FOD configuration. I read in one of the military rags a comment by a marine pilot that subtly suggested the engines never made it near the TBO because of FOD ingestion (or should I say indigestion). If you are the guy buying the engine, I can imagine why you'd avoid that.
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