{"id":57522,"date":"2024-10-23T21:38:53","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T19:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=57522"},"modified":"2024-10-29T21:46:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T20:46:06","slug":"a-british-airshow-singles-out-spanish-harrier-ii-as-a-firm-crowd-favourite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/10\/23\/a-british-airshow-singles-out-spanish-harrier-ii-as-a-firm-crowd-favourite\/","title":{"rendered":"A British airshow singles out Spanish Harrier II as \u201ca firm crowd favourite\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The original Harrier was born as a creation of the British company Hawker Siddeley, later converted into British Aerospace.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/07\/23\/a-spanish-harrier-ii-wins-a-rafcte-trophy-in-england-and-flies-with-a-small-giraffe\/\">A Spanish Harrier II wins a RAFCTE trophy in England and flies with a small giraffe<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/07\/20\/the-passion-for-the-spanish-harrier-ii-at-the-great-british-airshow-riat-2024\/\">The passion for the Spanish Harrier II at the great British airshow RIAT 2024<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Harrier, the Sea Harrier and finally the Harrier II were highly valued aircraft in the United Kingdom,<\/strong> both in the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Royal Navy. The last operational aircraft in the RAF were withdrawn from service in December 2010. Today, <strong>the only Harrier IIs usually seen in active service in the United Kingdom are those of the Spanish Navy,<\/strong> which attend year after year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airtattoo.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Royal International Air Tattoo<\/a>, at RAF Fairford (England), <strong>one of the largest aeronautical events in the world<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54088853843_7a9470e80b_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As I mentioned in July, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/07\/20\/la-pasion-por-los-harrier-ii-espanoles-en-el-gran-festival-aereo-britanico-riat-2024\/\">at the RIAT the Spanish Harrier II arouses passions<\/a>, as the British public looks with nostalgia at these fighter planes, skillfully handled by the pilots of the <strong>9th Squadron of the Aircraft Flotilla<\/strong>. At last summer's edition, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/07\/23\/a-spanish-harrier-ii-wins-a-rafcte-trophy-in-england-and-flies-with-a-small-giraffe\/\">a Spanish Harrier II won the trophy for the best foreign demonstration<\/a>, known as RAFCTE. It was awarded to Lieutenant Commander Andr\u00e9s Medina Gonz\u00e1lez del T\u00e1nago, pilot of the VA.1B-38, for <em>\"<strong>an evocative display of a classic aircraft type<\/strong>, unique for its time and bringing noise, presence and nostalgia to its subline performance.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54088604466_010232bc41_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the official RIAT channel on Youtube posted a video of the Spanish Harrier II display at RAF Fairford last summer, stating: <em>\"<strong>A firm crowd favourite again this year, there's just something special about the Harrier.<\/strong>\"<\/em> An excellent video to remember a great performance:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Harrier | RIAT24\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RDf-7SI30pQ?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>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Images: The Royal International Air Tattoo.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The original Harrier was born as a creation of the British company Hawker Siddeley, later converted into British Aerospace.<\/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":[2245,1111,10669,9071],"class_list":["post-57522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-portada-eng","category-navy","tag-9-escuadrilla","tag-mcdonnell-douglas-eav-8b-harrier-ii","tag-spanish-navy","tag-the-royal-international-air-tattoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57522"}],"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=57522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}