And the engine’s large intakes restricted the pilot’s rear ... delivered to the U.S. Marine Corps in late 1983. Designed for attack or multi-role operations, the Harrier has typically been ...

June 7, 2014, was a typical day aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Bataan with normal reconnaissance operations along with the ship's fleet of McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier IIs. But just as US ...

In addition to re-ingesting hot exhaust, the Harrier’s hot exhaust could melt asphalt, distort steel, and kick up significant amounts of dust—complicating flight operations. And the engine’s large ...

The MCAS Beaufort Air Show returned this weekend, with the blue-and-yellow F/A-18s of the U.S. Navy Blue Angels being the ...

As roaring jets streak across the sky over Beaufort for the Marine Corps Air Show this weekend ... For months, these skilled pilots train and practice for hours on end, only to perform for ...

The GEICO Skytypers perform a scramble maneuver at the 2019 MCAS Beaufort Air Show on Saturday at the Marine Corps Air Station ... For months, these skilled pilots train and practice for hours ...

The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division conducted its first-ever joint training exercise between Marine Corps and Air Force pilots. (Terri Thomas/Navy) Marine F-35 and Air Force F-22 pilots ...

Navy PB4Y-1 pilot Bruce Van Voorhis was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in the South Pacific. Here, a PB4Y-1 is shown circa 1944. (U.S. Navy) Of the many aircraft in which ...

March 20, 2025: The U.S. Marine Corps is making several changes to its F-35 force ... The larger squadrons will get two more pilots and an additional 24 aircraft maintainers. Marine aircraft will use ...

The ramp at the Udvar-Hazy Center hosts airplanes, pilots and visitors ... including a U.S. Marine Corps Harrier vertical-takeoff-and-landing jet, an Aero Vodochody L-39 jet trainer, a Lancair ...

Though their feats weren’t enough to win the war, the Argentine Skyhawk pilots were deadly effective ... helicopter whose crew alerted the Sea Harrier combat air patrols (CAPs), but the ...