{"id":52715,"date":"2023-08-14T21:12:46","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T19:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=52715"},"modified":"2023-08-19T20:37:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T18:37:20","slug":"an-american-channel-compiles-the-best-of-the-spanish-harrier-ii-at-the-riat-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/08\/14\/an-american-channel-compiles-the-best-of-the-spanish-harrier-ii-at-the-riat-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"An American channel compiles the best of the Spanish Harrier II at the RIAT 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In mid-July, The Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) 2023 was held at RAF Fairford airbase, England.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/07\/14\/the-applauded-exhibition-of-a-harrier-ii-of-the-spanish-navy-in-the-united-kingdom\/\">The applauded exhibition of a Harrier II of the Spanish Navy in the United Kingdom<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/07\/28\/the-difficult-landing-of-a-harrier-ii-of-the-spanish-navy-due-to-heavy-rain\/\">The difficult landing of a Harrier II of the Spanish Navy due to heavy rain<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>This air festival is one of the largest in the world, and was attended by <strong>two McDonnell Douglas EAV-8B+ Harrier II fighters from the 9th Squadron of the Spanish Navy Aircraft Flotilla<\/strong>, specifically the VA.1B-6 (01-916) and VA.1B-25 (01-914), both based in Rota (C\u00e1diz). These aircraft traveled to RAF Fairford along with a Cessna Citation executive transport aircraft from 4 Squadron.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Spanish Harrier IIs have generated great excitement at RIAT 2023<\/strong>, since the British Harrier IIs, which had many fans in that country, were withdrawn from service in 2010. <strong>Exhibits of the Spanish Harrier II received applause and have starred in many videos on Youtube<\/strong>, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/07\/16\/the-admired-flight-of-a-spanish-harrier-ii-with-an-f-35b-its-expected-replacement\/\">his joint flight with an RAF F-35B<\/a>. As a sign of the interest generated by the Spanish Navy fighters, an American YouTube channel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@Epicaviation47\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Epicaviation47<\/a>, has just published <strong>a complete video, of more than 21 minutes and in 4K quality, with the best of the Spanish Harrier II at the RIAT 2023:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Harrier Spectacle: Epic Compilation of Spain&#039;s Armada EAV-8B Harrier II Highlights at RIAT-2023&quot;\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vo0FMYcDnQ8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The video includes very good shots of one of the Spanish Harrier IIs on the ground<\/strong>, warming up its engines and taxiing around the RAF Fairford apron, as well as high-speed takeoffs and landings and maneuvers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53115592332_3c1381d87a_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The compilation also includes some <strong>images of the joint flight with the F-35B<\/strong>, the ZM154, belonging to 207 Squadron of the British Royal Air Force.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53116596355_b4237ae3ce_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The video also includes several of the <strong>stationary flights made by the Spanish Harrier IIs<\/strong> during their participation in this air festival.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53116678963_b2bf0829ea_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In mid-July, The Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) 2023 was held at RAF Fairford airbase, England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19534,11545],"tags":[2245,6897,1111,9072,10669,9071],"class_list":["post-52715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-portada-eng","category-navy","tag-9-escuadrilla","tag-flotilla-de-aeronaves-de-la-armada-espanola-floan","tag-mcdonnell-douglas-eav-8b-harrier-ii","tag-raf-fairford","tag-spanish-navy","tag-the-royal-international-air-tattoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}