Watching a Harrier jet hover low amongst the trees is like seeing a scene straight out of a movie - loud, surreal, and ...
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This Jet Can Hover in Mid-Air

Today we dive into the AV-8B Harrier II and the F-35B Lightning II—two remarkable jets that can launch and land from ...
Looking back at the envy with which the United States viewed Great Britain's Harrier Jump Jet, you'll find a humorous little anecdote from the early years of NATO. The Harrier was so incredible in its ...
This story has been corrected. The Marine Corps’ oldest flying squadron recently took another step toward the service’s retirement of a venerable vertical takeoff aircraft to make way for its ...
A fire truck spraying a rainbow-making flume of water marked one of the final steps toward retirement of a storied Marine Corps attack jet. The torrent above the AV-8B Harrier taxiing on the tarmac at ...
Ever since the F-35B short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) version of the Joint Strike Fighter first flew in the hands of BAE Systems’ test pilot Graham Tomlinson in June 2008 we have heard ...
PORTLAND, Ore. — The Tillamook Air Museum received a major addition to its permanent collection. A combat-tested AV-8B Harrier II flew in to Tillamook on Monday afternoon. "The arrival of a ...
The Marine Corps is drilling down on its plan to reclassify Marines tasked with keeping the AV-8B Harrier alive, a sign that the service is finally getting closer to retiring the decades-old jet as ...