{"id":56590,"date":"2024-07-20T18:39:42","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T16:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=56590"},"modified":"2025-07-20T00:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T22:06:12","slug":"the-passion-for-the-spanish-harrier-ii-at-the-great-british-airshow-riat-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/07\/20\/the-passion-for-the-spanish-harrier-ii-at-the-great-british-airshow-riat-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"The passion for the Spanish Harrier II at the great British airshow RIAT 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I have mentioned in other years, the Spanish Navy has become very popular at The Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT).<\/p>\n

The difficult landing of a Harrier II of the Spanish Navy due to heavy rain<\/a><\/rel>
\nThe admired flight of a Spanish Harrier II with an F-35B, its expected replacement<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n

For a few years now, the EAV-8B+ Harrier II Plus fighter aircraft of the 9th Squadron have been attending this festival, one of the largest events of this type in the world<\/strong>, which is held annually at the base British aircraft from RAF Fairford, England. And they are not treated like just another participant<\/strong>, despite the large number of aircraft from different countries that attend this air festival. Yesterday, the RIAT noted that the Spanish Harrier was \"a crowd favourite last year.\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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The passion for the Spanish Harrier IIs at this British air festival reaches such a point that on July 15 the RIAT used the image of one of these fighter aircraft from the 9th Squadron in one of its official posters<\/a>. The image shows the beautiful decoration that this plane had in its drift at RIAT 2023. This passion is explained because the Harrier and Harrier II were highly admired aircraft in the United Kingdom, but the last British Harrier IIs were withdrawn from the service in December 2010<\/strong>. For the British, seeing the Spanish Harrier IIs must be very nostalgic.<\/p>\n

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This Saturday, The Fighter Community<\/a> has published a video showing one of the exhibitions of the Spanish Harrier II at RIAT 2024<\/strong>. This exhibition included one of the moments that always generates the most excitement with these airplanes: the hovering flight.<\/p>\n