Still Hovering After all These Years

With the pull of a lever, 23,000 pounds of thrust slows the forty-seven foot long aircraft to a complete halt over the Lake Michigan shoreline, floating a stones throw away from a crowd boasting more than two million people. For the Marine Corps’ AV-8B Harrier, it’s all in a days work.

With the original design dating back to the late 1950’s, the AV-8A Harrier was finally put into production in 1966 for the British Royal Airforce, then entered into the service with the Marine Corps in the early seventies.