The Harrier II jump jet was a legendary military aircraft heavily utilized by the RAF. However, the U.K. government pulled ...

The British-designed Harrier has had to display tremendous versatility since its debut flight in October 1960 as the Hawker Siddeley P.1127 prototype. Intended for use against armoured vehicles in ...

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One of Britain’s senior Royal Air Force commanders has rebutted suggestions that retiring the Harrier GR9 will damage the ability to regenerate skills to operate the new F-35C variant of the Joint ...

35 years ago a RAF Harrier destroyed part of a grass strip by simply applying full throttle on take off. The following video has been around for some time now. Still, it’s quite funny and interesting ...

The Harrier jump jet was the world’s first vertical take-off and landing attack aircraft, and quickly became the RAF’s most iconic name of the late 20th century – the sight of its rotating engine ...

A council is set to spend £20,000 on installing an RAF Harrier jump jet on a major roundabout to commemorate the link between airmen and the community. Sign up for the top news stories every day to ...

BRADFORD, England, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- An online auction for a 1971 British Harrier jump jet restored by a former Royal Air Force mechanic has been halted by eBay, which says it is a weapon. A spokesman ...

A direct predecessor of the more famous Harrier, the Hawker-Siddeley Kestrel was an experimental STOVL aircraft developed in Britain during the early 1960s, designed to investigate the potential of ...