Amazon 7 #1 January 8, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=Ki86x1WKPmE&feature=colike No catapult... No hook.... It’s a new world out there! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
1969912 0 #2 January 8, 2012 Yes, very cool. The lift fan is 29,000 horsepower "Once we got to the point where twenty/something's needed a place on the corner that changed the oil in their cars we were doomed . . ." -NickDG Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
stevebabin 0 #3 January 8, 2012 Quotehttp://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=Ki86x1WKPmE&feature=colike No catapult... No hook.... It’s a new world out there! They've been doing this for decades...it's just that they're doing it better now. Cool stuff! Thanks for posting!"Science, logic and reason will fly you to the moon. Religion will fly you into buildings." "Because figuring things out is always better than making shit up." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mutumbo 0 #4 January 8, 2012 sure makes parallel parking easier Thanatos340(on landing rounds)-- Landing procedure: Hand all the way up, Feet and Knees Together and PLF soon as you get bitch slapped by a planet. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shropshire 0 #5 January 8, 2012 Quote sure makes parallel parking easier even a lass could do it (.)Y(.) Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
piisfish 140 #6 January 8, 2012 Quote It’s a new world out there! not a NEW world... but definitely a cool and sexy plane scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shropshire 0 #7 January 8, 2012 Quote Quote http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=Ki86x1WKPmE&feature=colike No catapult... No hook.... It’s a new world out there! They've been doing this for decades...it's just that they're doing it better now. Cool stuff! Thanks for posting! Thank-you Hawker Siddeley and British Aerospace (.)Y(.) Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnRich 4 #8 January 9, 2012 QuoteNo catapult... No hook.... It’s a new world out there! Not really. Ever heard of the Harrier? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_AV-8B_Harrier_II Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
oldwomanc6 60 #9 January 9, 2012 Quote Quote No catapult... No hook.... It’s a new world out there! Not really. Ever heard of the Harrier? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_AV-8B_Harrier_II And it does fancy stuff! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqg7x3ovKUIlisa WSCR 594 FB 1023 CBDB 9 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ryoder 1,590 #10 January 9, 2012 Quote And it does fancy stuff! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqg7x3ovKUI "F-35 Harrier"."There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Remster 30 #11 January 9, 2012 Quote "F-35 Harrier" Oh no.. Here we go again with bad fighter nomenclature! Remster Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amazon 7 #12 January 9, 2012 Quote Quote No catapult... No hook.... It’s a new world out there! Not really. Ever heard of the Harrier? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_AV-8B_Harrier_II I think you will find that this one has a substantially more interesting performance envelope than the Harrier. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jtval 0 #13 January 9, 2012 I wonder if they'll melt asphalt like the Harrier does. Been on a few airshows where the demo would leave an unpleasant hole on the runway. Air booses don't seem to care for that. My photos My Videos Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnRich 4 #14 January 9, 2012 Quote Quote Quote No catapult... No hook.... It’s a new world out there! Not really. Ever heard of the Harrier? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_AV-8B_Harrier_II I think you will find that this one has a substantially more interesting performance envelope than the Harrier. That's true, but your starter message referred only to the ability to take-off and land on a carrier without catapults or arresting hooks, and implied that this capability was something new. The Marines have been doing it for 40 years! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
virgin-burner 1 #15 January 9, 2012 Quote Quote Quote No catapult... No hook.... It’s a new world out there! Not really. Ever heard of the Harrier? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_AV-8B_Harrier_II And it does fancy stuff! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqg7x3ovKUI in enjoy playing bf3 too! "wake island, this is"^^“Some may never live, but the crazy never die.” -Hunter S. Thompson "No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try." -Yoda Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
