No runway needed!

It was a 'Jump Jet'

- no runway needed!

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The Hawker Siddeley Harrier was the first vertical/short take off and landing (V/STOL) aircraft to go into service. It combined the best aspects of a helicopter with those of a fighter jet. Its versatility included flying from airfields on land or from the decks of Royal Navy aircraft carriers at sea.

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...and it helped Margaret Thatcher win the Falklands War!

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Hawker Harrier hovers and lands vertically on

runway into its own jet wash.

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