The Hawker Siddeley Kestrel was the aviation world’s first jump jet, a Vertical/Short Take-Off and Landing (or V/STOL) ...

This jet-powered VTOL transport vehicle was the first, and only, of its kind - capable of transporting up to 36 people and 11,000 pounds of cargo.

The Harrier fighter jet, on the other hand, relies on a unique thrust vectoring system to generate adequate lift. The AV-8B Harrier II Plus jet, one of the last variants, is built around a Rolls ...

The vertical take-off and landing-capable Harrier served in the U.K.'s Royal Air Force for five decades from 1969 to 2011. But why was it retired?

C H E R R Y  P O I N T, N.C., Feb. 3 -- Two Marine Corps aviators were killedtoday when their Harrier jet crashed while trying to land aftera training mission. The victims' names were being ...

As the Harrier continues its twilight tour – VMA-223, the Bulldogs, out of Cherry Point, NC, will be last to transition fully to the F-35 in 2026 – it’s demonstrating that an old jet can ...

The squadron, identified as the service's oldest flying squadron, was formed just after World War I, and it adopted the Harrier jump jet in the 1970s and the second-generation AV-8B Harrier II in ...

Harrier pilots practice takeoffs and landings, the most dangerous part of any flight near Henson's home. Henson says the crash is further evidence that the Harrier jet should be grounded.

The Marine Corps is drilling down on its plan to reclassify Marines tasked with keeping the AV-8B Harrier alive, a sign that the service is finally getting closer to retiring the decades-old jet ...