What would I need to legaly 'drive' one of these?

Von Smallhausen said:
It was never designed for speed. It was designed for V/STOL capabilities and manoeuvrability and with rotating engines that it has, afterburners were not possible to fit. After all, the Harrier is a 1960's design that has been improved through several developments by the MoD and also by the United States through the AV8 series.

The Harrier did well during the Falklands conflict in 1982, taking out several McDonnell Douglas A-4's in air to air combat. I'm not sure of they splashed any French Super Entenards though.

The new Royal Navy carriers will have a compliment of F-35's though and will render the Harrier obsolete, although the Navy is in the process of phasing out the Sean Harrier 2 already.
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Although they are still re-developing the harrier even now, not sure if its quite in service yet but they're in the process of rolling out the Gr9, extra couple of thousand pounds of thrust and a bit of a cockpit technology overhaul I believe. Although they are only refurbing a few at a time, slow progress.

Anyway, back to the thread.
 
Mickey_D said:
To go even more OT :

Another plane that has a horrendously low top speed that is still an incredible machine is the A-10 Warthog!!

It may be slow, but you REALLY don't want to have it pointed at you!!

And when you're talking about a plane that was designed and built around its primary gun, yes you DO say "it is pointed at you"!! :eek:
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With one of them around and meaning business, the very last place I want to be is in a tank. But the Warthog only barely qualifies as a plane, it's more of a gun system, with a couple of wings and somewhere for the pilot to sit bolted on, isn't it? :D
 
Von Smallhausen said:
It was never designed for speed. It was designed for V/STOL capabilities and manoeuvrability and with rotating engines that it has, afterburners were not possible to fit. After all, the Harrier is a 1960's design that has been improved through several developments by the MoD and also by the United States through the AV8 series.

The Harrier did well during the Falklands conflict in 1982, taking out several McDonnell Douglas A-4's in air to air combat. I'm not sure of they splashed any French Super Entenards though.

The new Royal Navy carriers will have a compliment of F-35's though and will render the Harrier obsolete, although the Navy is in the process of phasing out the Sean Harrier 2 already.
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I was on about the boat. 320nm is not really great. :)
 
Iritatingly you arn't required by law to have a license as long as it is just you piloting the beast afaik.

The moment you had paying guests it's a whole nother ball game. And as previously stated your insurance company would probably raise some large concerns at having a boat like that and no proof that you can use it.

And although it's not a requirement you are going to look a bit silly when not knowing what you are doing you end up having the lifeboat called out, or end up in a restricted shipping lane or some such.

Normal practice would be to have a competent qualified crew on board, a boat like that normally (I say normally as with that price tag everything is built to your spec.) has quarters for your butler and crew :o) The crew sail it around to wherever you want them to be when you jet in to visit your plaything.
 
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