{"id":53632,"date":"2023-11-03T06:02:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T05:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=53632"},"modified":"2023-11-07T19:35:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T18:35:33","slug":"the-curious-operation-to-disassembly-the-wing-of-a-harrier-ii-fighter-of-the-spanish-navy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/11\/03\/the-curious-operation-to-disassembly-the-wing-of-a-harrier-ii-fighter-of-the-spanish-navy\/","title":{"rendered":"The curious operation to disassembly the wing of a Harrier II fighter of the Spanish Navy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EAV-8B Harrier II fighters have been in service for many years in the Spanish Navy and have starred in many photos and videos.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/10\/31\/the-commander-of-the-aircraft-flotilla-of-the-spanish-navy-speaks-clearly-about-the-f-35\/\">The Commander of the Aircraft Flotilla of the Spanish Navy speaks clearly about the F-35<\/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>However, <strong>there are very curious images that are common <\/strong>for those of us who do not have access to the hangars of the 9th Squadron in Rota and the aircraft carrier \"Juan Carlos I\". An example of this is a video published yesterday by the Spanish Defense Staff (EMAD) showing <strong>the operation to dismantle the wing of a Spanish Harrier II<\/strong>, within the framework of maintenance tasks in the hangar of aircraft from the aforementioned ship during the NATO Neptune Strike exercise:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Grupo de Combate &#039;D\u00e9dalo&#039;\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MQ2MjNZNeYo?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>As we can see in the following screenshots, <strong>during these tasks the fighter only had its rear landing gear deployed<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53305977161_8d38f8e489_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The front landing gear was folded to be able to tilt the nose of the plane down and thus be able to <strong>pass the wing over the cockpit<\/strong>. Removing the wing from the tail would be more difficult due to the height of the drift and the limited height of the hangar.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53306341304_088f476780_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As we see here, <strong>during this operation the plane had to be supported on several supports<\/strong>, not only to have the front landing gear folded, but also so that the plane would not fall to one side.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53305113337_7949b10c4a_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Harrier II has four landing gears: the main one<\/strong> (located under the center of the fuselage and formed by two large wheels with a single support), <strong>the front one<\/strong> (with a single wheel and located in tandem) <strong>and two legs with wheels<\/strong> located in the middle of the wing, which are deployed so that the plane maintains balance. In this video we can see the legs of the wings folded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EAV-8B Harrier II fighters have been in service for many years in the Spanish Navy and have starred in many photos and videos.<\/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":[2245,11229,18531,1112,1111,10669],"class_list":["post-53632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-portada-eng","category-navy","tag-9-escuadrilla","tag-aircraft-carrier-juan-carlos-i-l61","tag-aircraft-fleet-of-the-spanish-navy-floan","tag-mcdonnell-douglas-av-8b-harrier-ii","tag-mcdonnell-douglas-eav-8b-harrier-ii","tag-spanish-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53632"}],"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=53632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}