F-18 HARV
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- čas přidán 18. 01. 2022
- During the late 1980s, NASA decided to deepen its understanding of flight at high angles of attack, or alpha. For this purpose, it created the High Angle-of-Attack Technology Program, or HATP.
A unique aircraft was selected among thousands to participate in the program. It was the infamous F-18 Hornet. Previously used by the Navy for testing purposes, the chosen example was the sixth Hornet built by McDonnell Douglas Corporation.
However, the aircraft had been severely cannibalized for spare parts throughout the years, and it was so mangled that the Navy believed it would never fly again.
Still, the engineers carried on and believed in what would eventually be remembered as the legendary F-18 High Angle-of-Attack Research Vehicle, providing the foundations on how to handle all future American fighter aircraft...
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Test Pilot: OK, what do you want me to do?
NASA: Everything wrong on purpose.
Test Pilot: Cool!
Pilot: Ejects immediately after liftoff and the plane crashes
@@apex_blue Shuts plane down, goes to the OC and proceeds to get fitshaced..
Depends whether the pilot is a gamer.
Flight Control will correct all Pilot Errors
I got a buddy that I grew up with that can put an automobile through its paces like that. And then tell you whats wrong with it.
I know it's popular among viewers of the Dark family of channels to shit all over the footage not syncing with the topic, but nobody praises them when they get it right. This episode has the most relevant footage to topic ratio I've seen in quite a while, and that's coming from someone who gave up caring about that quite some time ago, and learned to just enjoy the channels for what they are.
Using the plane they are talking about is bare minimum competence.
I do feel like I'm watching an old TV too close to the screen though. :D
I love these channels, in spite of the many mistakes. There is still a lot of cool, valuable info for a layperson such as myself
Glad there’s some of us out there still. I’m tired of the hairsplitting sweaty kids.
I like to think of these more as mini podcasts with B-Roll in the background. If it's relevant, cool. If not, oh well. Anyone expecting full theatrical release quality documentaries out of a CZcams channel that puts out several videos a month obviously doesn't understand how much work it is to do even this level of production.
This plane gives me the impression of the f-22's scrappy smaller but older brother. He paved the way in the local high school for his younger brother to be the more attractive popular kid with his exploits of climbing the water tower. The f-22 was built with the research data obtained by this plane.
weird analogy but i like it lol
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There's F-15 STOL/MTD or F-15 Active. F-22A is effectively F-15 Active with stealth.
@@valenrn8657 it’s more of a mix of the stol a and the Harv
@@valenrn8657 The A.F. wanted a next-Gen F-15 and got it …. The YF-23 might become a Japanese fighter - wonder if we can buy that ?
Super Hornets still roam the ocean skies. Excellent aircraft.
This aircraft paved the way for other flight research projects like the F-16 VISTA. I has a thrust vectoring nozzle like the one on HARV, and acts as an in-flight trainer with variable control laws which makes it capable of simulating the maneuvering performance of other aircraft.
A lot of naval aviators especially the guys from the mid 1970’s thru to 2000 disliked the hornet at first , they were flying the f-14 tomcat which was a legend among planes that flew off of American carriers , it had speed , great weapons , very importantly its legs , and of course it was made famous in top gun . The original hornet which was a 2nd place finisher to the f-16 when the air force was shopping around for a light weight, cheaper to build , fast , and nimble aircraft that was going to be exported to are allies around the globe . The navy discovered the f 18 which was called the yf17 back then and turned it into the naval version of what we see today. .
@Mr Big I recall an article in the Israeli Air Force magazine, where the IAF flew the F-18 locally here in Israel as one of the final candidates for requipping.
In the end our top brass went with F-16 C & D, to replave our Phatom squadrons. I don't recall all the details, but the article was a very in depth pros and cons comparing the two types. Fascinating read.
I saw the YF-17 do a flight demo at Langley. It was being considered for the lightweight fighter the AF wanted.
@@capitolabill1921 yeah but the air force didn’t do bad with the f16 .
YF17 was smaller than the F18 and had a worse engine, with smaller thrust/weight ratio, so was pretty different than the actual Hornet, the only similar thing was the fuselage
I'll never understand how the hornet was ever selected. Tiny combat radius. Low top speed and poor energy retention. And it could carry, what... Half the load of an A-6?
As a NAVY Retired Aircraft mechanic, the two commands I was stationed with where the best years of NVAY life, pilots loved to fly it. was fairly simple to work on, as my career progressed, I was able to "Start the aircraft" for Maintenace and the was awesome experience. for these experiments to take place after production, must have been hell of good time. Great Video
Tyfys
NVAY?
Worked for Hughes Aircraft Co. 1984 through the 1990's at NAS Lemoore operating and maintaining the F/A-18 flight simulators and weapons tactic trainers. I remember when we had the NASA pilots come through the training syllabus to learn to fly the F/A-18 Hornet. At the time its was the A/B, C models with the D models starting up.
Love that plane, the paintjob really stands out.
Should be called Orca, love the tip
Seriously. I already thought the F18 was a sexy plane. But that one is magnificent
Just amazing the number of test vehicles I saw at Edwards in the 90s.
More more more of these experimental aircraft please.
Love all the hard work you put in for your channels! Big fan of your work!
Interesting you say that when the channel gets so much wrong.
@@dat581 like which ones?
@@armadillo3454 Pretty much everything.
@@dat581 Not trying to start an argument but can you give like a specific example? Im not very versed in Aviation or prototype vehicles so its all foreign territory to me lol
I'm looking forward to an episode about the F-15 S/MTD and eventually ACTIVE program. Great video!
the F18 is one of the best planes ever made. its just so damn beautiful and good.
By far the most incredible F-18 I've ever seen!
OMG MY FAVOURITE JET THANK YOU! CLICKED SO FREAKING FAST, the f16 and f15s with thurst vectoring too!
Why isn’t the Su-30 and Su-35 your favourite jet then? Those feature thrust vectoring, in actual operational combat aircraft…
@@pjotrtje0NL Or f22 if hes more into American jets.
@@pjotrtje0NL I like the F 18 for the look of it fully armed or getting ready to take off but I like the su 30s for its maneuverability
@@pjotrtje0NL because this plane and other like the Vista mstd and x-31did thrust vectoring before Russia build the alf-31p thrust vectoring engine that went on the MKI and the su-31
@@pjotrtje0NL right after these are the Su-57 and su-47 for their outstanding beauty and agility, and then followed by F-22 and F-15s, you are 100% on that, if it were a su-30 shape I'd go for the Su-37 terminator hbu?
I loved this video! Experimental research aircraft shown here made me want to work in this field! Thanks for what you do; it doesn't go unappreciated!
The F18 has always been my favorite design of a jet fighter aircraft. Beautifully sleek aircraft!
Same, it’s so clean!
I literally just did research on this plane last night, thanks man.
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Sure you did lol
Glad to hear this pathfinder has been preserved.
Thank you for the backstory on the aircraft itself; I didn't realize creation of it was such an adventure.
That's my bird, the beautiful F/A-18. This particular T/M/S is an Alpha (F/A-18A).
Looks weird without the VEN and with those bits sticking out on the aft fuselage, but that's some mighty purty paint on it.
We do air demonstrations aboard ship sometimes when we're out in international waters, so we can get away with stuff you won't usually see, like Mach 1 and above just over the waves breaking the sound barrier right next to the ship.
One of the tricks I've see aircrew perform is standing the jet up almost vertically and cruising by slowly strictly by balancing on engine thrust constantly overcoming the inherent stall. Sort of like a wheelie, but with a jet. I wonder how they avoided compressor stalls with the intakes pointed up like that... must be very efficient at sucking in the surrounding air.
Oorrah. 🇺🇲
I got to see an F/A-18 do a supersonic flyby on board the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower when we were in the Mediterranean last year. My first deployment. A cool experience not many people can see.
@@CorporalAdrianShephard. yep, my first med float was aboard the George Washington with VMFA-251 back in 1997 or 1998.
Went to Cannes, Haifa, and Dubai on that one. I loved Israel, but France didn't impress me.
As for the UAE, been there, done that, plenty of deployments to the area since Desert Shield/Desert Storm and to Iraqi Freedom when I was in the infantry.
Semper Fi. 🇺🇲
After watching this and listening to an interview of a F-22 pilot who talked about how the aircraft flies, I would be astonished if lessons learned from this weren't used in the F-22's flight control system.
F-22 does things I never knew a fighter jet could do.
I worked on helicopters in the Army. We used to refer to such cannibalized aircraft as a "hangar queen". I recall on unit made a crown out of aluminum
I love this aircraft and was privileged to work on this aircraft from 1986 to 1990 as a power plants mech and flight line crew during my time with USMC 3rd Air wing, MAG11, MCAS El Toro, CA (now closed) with Squadrons VMFA-314 Black Knights and VMFAT-101 Sharpshooters (training sqd for pilots). This is just the information publicly released, there is much more that it is not ever shared. This aircraft is a beast and workhorse. The maintenance was fairly easy and we could safely R&R a GE F404 Turbofan engine in just a few hours. I miss those days...
When dark skies uploads, it brightens my day 😬😬😬😬😬
The black and white colouring is badass.
True, the NASA liveries are always really cool too.
I just love all of your channels! This one and Dark 5 are my favorites. Thanks!
The coolest jet that I love that no one has ever heard about
I remember when people used to read.
I believe most aviation enthusiasts have heard of it, & studied it.
Unless you owned a Commodore Amiga - everyone who did knew what a F/A-18 Interceptor was…
Extremely well done. Nice research and perfect assumed viewer knowledge base. I feel like I'm being briefed about an enemy aircraft by a phd. Thanks.
Your being briefed straight from the NASA web page that this channel copied it from, since with all the mistakes that are made on this channel there's no way he'd get anything correct without cheating.
@@rorschach7507 why watch the channels if you dislike it so much?
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Not once do i say i dislike the dark channel's if fact i'm subscribed to 4 of them, there's loads of well made video's on each of them, but there's also video's with obvious mistakes in them and i'm not the only viewer to comment on this.
Great video. Thanks for taking the time to produce such great content.
Great video overall and the music that you use in the background is absolutely amazing!
I'm glad the HARV F/A-18 survived and is preserved/displayed in a museum.
I learn so much from your channel. Excellent vid as always!
All the Dark channels have interesting and informative subject matter, but I always seem to gravitate towards Dark Skies. Funny since I was a paratrooper, and almost never flew unless I was going to fall out of the aircraft, lol. Yet another great video!
Fascinating stuff! The birth of modern thrust vectoring. Nice video here.
This is some of the most fascinating and interesting research into the crazy iceberg of aerodynamics for jets to date.
Outstanding presentation on outstanding project. The story to bring this aircraft back to life is worthy of a show of its' own. Dark keeps pushing the envelope.
Its so cool seeing it in person at the Virginia Air & Space Center
I had a trip out of Moffett Field a few months ago, I saw a NASA livery F18 and wondered what they used it for. Thanks for the informative video, super interesting!
This is dope. This is exactly the kind of project that would have been right up my alley and I would have devoted probably 360 days out of the year to it.
I think "infamous" is a negative connotation for the F18, if anything it is famous for just about everything it has accomplished
It’s all relative
Yes. "Infamous" is negative. Ted Bundy is infamous. The Comet's problems and crashes are infamous. Or, perhaps best known, the attack on Pearl Harbor made Dec. 7th "A date which will live in infamy." The F/A-18, like many aircraft programs, had problems during development, but none that would make it "infamous."
@@egmccann Like how the attack on pearl harbour makes it infamous for the US, the F/A-18 would be infamous for the people who get attacked by it, no?
What a beauty!!
Thanks for the video. I'll be glad to have one about the *F-15 ACTIVE* somedays. Cheers
Your content and delivery are excellent!!!
We may work at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force but it's ok to love the F-18 right??? Wow, awesome!!!
AOA is more determined by the angle of oncoming airflow to the wing. If my AOA is pined high then I have a faulty probe probably do to icing or the airflow angle is so great that I'm about to stall.
So much info incorporated into future aircraft!👍🇺🇸
Always good watching your shows. Great work.
Man I grew up with the F14 being thig big boy. Then the F-18. Now the F-35. Man I'm only middle aged!
Go back dude, like the F8, the British Lithening..
Both faster then the F14 or F18 and twenty years before! Yep.
@@raywhitehead730 Well I'm a child of Bell Bottoms and Disco so that one was a little early for me, gnome sayin'?
@@sid2112 You expect to live to be 120?! Probably not dude. Middle age it late 30s to early 40's. You have a good chance to live to 80, so 40 is the middle! Hope your Mom didn't make you wear a Leisure suit like mine did. We ARE old now. ;-)
@@sydecarnutz972 150 at least! Old enough to know something and young enough to beat it into the next generation. Good times!
Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
That paint scheme and those thrust vectoring nozzles make it look sexy AF....
The pilot who flew it must've been some special guy....
My favorite F-18 with ‘360’ degree vector thrust.❤️
It has got forward nose thrusters aswell😎🇺🇸
Thanks! Good vid, informative and insightful.
Really enjoy dark skies
So basically NASA adopted a completely broken, used up, and decrepit F-18 Hornet then healed it, rebuilt it and turned it into a hot rod. Very cool that aircraft gets has a new lease on life. The F-18 is a special aircraft.
Had no idea Planes have attitude... Crazy you learn something new every day.
Harvey ! Amazing it is in one piece - wow
Great tribute 👏👏
Love the HARV and love these channels
Well done!
Beautiful jet design.👍
you are doing a great job
Love your work 😀
Keep it up, exceptionally good
Brilliant video!!!
This would have been an awesome project to be a part of. Awesome plane
Excellent stuff bro
I'm betting this thing was amazing to fly with all of that control and maneuverability.
Love love love it!
Que bonitos, cuanta nostalgia. Y pensar que en su época eran uno de los mejores . Que bueno que los mantengan activos. Muy bueno el canal. Saludos.
Always interesting.
Keep up the good work!
So let me see if I heard this right: the plane they got was missing 400 parts and they didn't have a wiring schematic. Some how they created a test bed for advanced aoa research. What an amazing feat.
Some impressive maneuverability and its all knowledge gained to stay ahead of the game and in that our mission is clearly successful. Expensive as all hell but successful.
This plane definitely gave them what they needed to know to build the F-22 and YF-23.
That paint job ❤❤
I love this channel
Thank you that was interesting.
Very good vidio lots of good technology to make our air force more effective. That is a win win win situation.
Why on earth was cutting edge research conducted using mopped-up scraps instead of building a dedicated experimental airframe?!?
HARV is located in the Virginia Air and Space Center in Hampton, VA!
That NASA paint job is sexy as hell.
You know it’s going to be good when dark skies have slightly less serious music than usual 😂
I always want myself enjoy your videos especially because I have an uncle that was an Air Force pilot Colonel Robert Creest US Air Force retired deceased he is at Arlington national cemetery please look him up and go pay your respects along with his comrades
During the F18 development, the leading edge was filled in, prior to that there was a long open space between leading edge and the fuselage... The skipper of a squadron later died as he attempted aerodynamic braking, that gave too high an angle of attack and the plane flipped on landing Capt. Kleeman at Miramar in the 80s
Henry Kleemann, 1985, VX4, test and evaluation squadron.
Bringing aerial combat back to its infancy
The flight tests that proved that a Super Tomcat would have been a sound procurement into the 21st century...
the legendary plane that next to no one has ever heard of. 😅
If anyone here is a DCS fan they have a fan made mod of the Original F-18 HARV paint scheme on their site for download. I use it in dcs it looks really good.
"The Navy believed that it would never fly again..."
NASA Engineers: Hold our Solar Calculators...
YEAS LOVE THIS
This is NASA at its best. Fulfilliing the first A (Aeronautics) in the agencys acronym.
This type of basic research has huge benifits to aviation safety and knowledge. An invalubale national asset to the US and to international aviation.
Billions of us fly safer each year, thanks to this type of research by NASA.
Better than their"Space" stuff
The coolest thing was the forward wing trim. This allows a slight manageable stall to align target acquisition!
reminded me of the horizontal stabilizer issue with the X-1 during sound barrier attempts
Now this is pod racing!
1:29 nitpicking but not angle of the body, angle of the chord line of the wing to relative wind. Great videos keep it up
This is on display are the air and space center near me in Hampton, VA.
The general silhouette of this aircraft looks very reminiscent of our F22 and F35 fighters today, I wonder how much inspiration was drawn from this aircraft, if any.
Saw this thing at the Virginia Air and Space Center, it's pretty wicked looking
No matter how old it is - the F-18 is still pretty strong fighting for now. Is there possible development for this fighter jet to be the next generation?