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  2. Harrier jump jet - Wikipedia

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    The Harrier, informally referred to as the Harrier jump jet, is a family of jet-powered attack aircraft capable of vertical/short takeoff and landing operations (V/STOL). Named after a bird of prey , [ 1 ] it was originally developed by British manufacturer Hawker Siddeley in the 1960s.

  3. McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II - Wikipedia

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    BAe test pilots cleared the aircraft carrier Príncipe de Asturias for Harrier operations in July 1989. The carrier, which replaced the World War II-era Dédalo , has a 12° ski-jump ramp . [ 138 ] [ 139 ] It was originally planned that the first unit to operate the aircraft would be the 8 a Escuadrilla .

  4. British Aerospace P.1216 - Wikipedia

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    The British Aerospace (BAe) P.1216 was a planned Advanced Short Take Off/Vertical Landing (ASTOVL) supersonic aircraft from the 1980s. It was designed by the former Hawker design team at Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England that created the Harrier family of aircraft.

  5. Hawker Siddeley P.1154 - Wikipedia

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    The Hawker Siddeley P.1154 was a planned supersonic vertical/short take-off and landing (V/STOL) fighter aircraft designed by Hawker Siddeley Aviation (HSA).. Development originally started under P.1150, which was essentially a larger and faster version of the basic layout and technology being developed by the smaller subsonic Hawker Siddeley P.1127/Kestrel.

  6. List of Harrier variants - Wikipedia

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    An AV-8B Harrier II Plus from the Spanish aircraft carrier Principe de Asturias prepares to land. YAV-8B Two prototypes converted in 1978 from existing AV-8A airframes (BuNo 158394, 158395). [1] AV-8B Harrier II "Day Attack" variant. 4 full scale development (FSD) aircraft were built in 1982, followed by 162 production aircraft, built 1983–1989.

  7. CEO of failed supersonic plane startup on what went wrong ...

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    Supersonic aviation startup Exosonic shut down in November after five years in business. The California-based startup was working on faster-than-sound jets for commercial and military use.

  8. British Aerospace Sea Harrier - Wikipedia

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    Unusual in an era in which most naval and land-based air superiority fighters were large and supersonic, the principal role of the subsonic Sea Harrier was to provide air defence for Royal Navy task groups centred around the aircraft carriers. The Sea Harrier served in the Falklands War and the Balkans conflicts; on all occasions it mainly ...

  9. Factbox-US aircraft carriers - What they bring to the Middle East

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    The carrier, which includes a nuclear reactor, can hold more than 75 military aircraft, including fighter aircraft like the F-18 Super Hornet jets and the E-2 Hawkeye, which can act as an early ...