VIDEO: Private Sea Harrier in emergency vertical landing

www.flightglobal.com ^ | 15/11/07 | Graham Warwick

[Freeport]

The only privately owned Sea Harrier vertical/short take-off and landing fighter suffered a gear collapse when making an emergency landing at the US Navy's Patuxent River test centre after experiencing a hydraulic problem.

This video footage posted by Nalls Aviation, the US owner of the ex-Royal Navy BAE Systems Sea Harrier F/A-2, shows the 11 November emergency vertical landing on the hover grid at Pax River in Maryland.

[Freeport]

Ouch. That hurt...

[Samwise]

ping

[Ditto]

Help. I have fallen and can’t get up.

[Doogle]

but it's not a reliable indication, I have since been told."

ah,..ah,...err, any other indicators have a habit of not giving true indications?..Yeah I guess when you can climb out of the cockpit and roll off the wing...that might be an indication it's parked kinda leanin

[Tallguy]

That’s gonna ‘ding’ his wallet a bit. BTW, anybody know the current laws/regulations concerning the private ownership of ex-military aircraft? You don’t often hear about military jets in private hands. Darned few of them.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

Oops.

[gathersnomoss]

He should try the “disabled parking” spot the next time.

[Ramius]

This guy owns his own Harrier?

Dang... that really ups the ante for the “guys with cool toys” in the neighborhood.

[Bob]

As I've heard it:

When it takes full power to taxi - you just might have forgotten to put your gear down before landing.

[thackney]

Don’t worry, you can still top him with your own private missle base.

http://www.missilebases.com/

[ArrogantBustard]

There’s an operational F-18 in private hands, and at least one MiG-17.

[Doogle]

20ft...18ft....*beep*...*beep*...16ft...*beep*...*beep*....

14ft....*beep*...beep*....CRASSSSSSSSHHHHHH!!...*RADIO TRANSMISSION*...SSZZHHHHH..oh yeah Art?, we forgot to tell ya, that altitude indicator isn’t reliable

[Moose4]

And there used to be at least one two-seat MiG-21 trainer up in New England somewhere.

}:-)4

[Doogle]

MUST MAKE NIGHT FLIGHT FUN...

[ontap]

I have a riding lawnmower!

[Freeport]

I think there’s at least one F-104 flying out there too.

The other one that I know of had an engine flame-out and since no one had ever lived through an F-104 dead stick landing, the pilot thought the better part of valor and punched out...

[M203M4]

:-)

[A.A. Cunningham]

Looks worse than it actually is.

Nalls Aviation.Com Home of the Sea Harrier FA/2

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

I get the feeling that the garage doors behind that bird take a beating on spool-up, no?