Thanks for taking the time to explain all that to us @Deacon211. Really interesting stuff. I am looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the Harrier module when it is released.
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Thanks guys,
I do have CAP2. but I havenāt played it much.
I seem to keep having my joystick assignments cleaned out every time I play which gets tedious after awhile.
The big gripe I had last time I played was the roll inertia. It feels like you have a Harrier on each wingtip of the Harrier! LOL!
Iāve never flown Lears, but I did fly the T-2 and, even with tip tanks, I never felt that much tendency to keep rolling. I hope they tone it down a bit.
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Very interesting. I havenāt gotten CAP to properly work yet, it seems stuck in a windowed mode but I am looking forward to messing with it
One thing I remembered from my time working at the AFB was that the Harriers were the loudest planes to visit.
After watching them a few times, I realized the reason was while other jets could make more noise on takeoff (due to burners/multiple engines/whatever), on TO the planes are usually fairly high and ascending by the time they leave the runway which mitigates the noise.
That leaves landings. Every plane throttles back to land, obviouslyā¦but their engines are pointing aft. The Harrier pointed its nozzles DOWN. Not totally, as Deacon outlined, but even that angle meant it was directing its thrust, and therefore the acoustic energy, at the ground. At the same time, itās getting lower, so the volume increases as it gets closer to the runway, and when it finally crosses the threshold to land itās far lower than a plane taking off when it crosses going the other way (unless itās a C-5, but I digressā¦) On top of all that, it comes in fairly slow for a jet with that much thrust, so the sonic presence lingers longer than when a hot jet like a 15 comes in.
So, low altitude, slow, engine pointed at the ground, high thrustā¦ROAR goes the Harrier on landing, even when itās not vertical and it has a 2.5 mile runway ahead of it. It was actually fairly quiet on TO, the B-1B was the loudest in that category. 
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I second that. The Harrier was the loudest noise Iāve ever heard at an airshow until another airshow had a B-1B takeoff with full afterburner.
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Harrier loud? You should be on the flight line when an SR-71 takes off. It basically jellifies your guts 
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So does a very nasty curry
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What Iām reading implies that to get the full experience I need to watch a Blackbird takeoff while eating some mercilessly spicy curry.
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A good Carne asada burrito will also work.
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Also āLa peperonata della nonnaā!
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Cocos lvl 9 curry
My mind always goes to that Pitbull song now.
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Donāt get me started on Satinās cocktail. Long story, but I had to throw away a set of sheets after a bad night with Fireball.
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Oh, you canāt tease with that and not finish the storyā¦
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No way am I going to immortalize the incident digitally. Maybe over a beer at the first MUDSPIKE Tailhook gathering.
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Fine. Then I will have to regale you with the Goldschlager debacle and how I coughed up gold flakes for three daysā¦
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Iāll be in your neck of the woods in about 6 weeksā¦
Iāll come to the US from Europe just to hear it.
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