quicksilver wrote:It’s ‘meh’ — just like it was for Harrier.
Not all Marine Corps pilots went “meh”:
Major Art Nells, USMC, had this to say:
“In December 1988, a detachment from the Naval Air Test Center (NATC), Patuxent River, Md., conducted a flight test program matching up a Spanish aircraft carrier, Principe de Asturias, and the U.S. Marine Corps AV-8B Harrier II vertical/short takeoff and landing attack aircraft. The flight test results were nothing short of amazing. Takeoff performance of the AV-8 was dramatically improved, as well as safety and the potential for true Harrier/helicopter interoperability.”
Major Nells was one of those test pilots according to Wikipedia.
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