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Can Harriers ground-taxi backwards?
Hopefully Frijoles or some other current or former Harrier
type can answer this (whatever happened to Cecil Turner?). Using braking stop it would seem at least theoretically possible, but I don't know if there were other problems that prevented it (hot gas re-ingestion/FOD, light on the wheels, etc). Assuming it is doable and NATOPS allows it, is/was it done rarely/infrequently/routinely on an LPH/LHA/LHD? I was just wondering if it were possible to taxi cross-deck and get lined-up, then backup to maximise T/O run, thus allowing more a/c to be launched in a short period of time than if it were necessary to use deck tractors for positioning. Or is the deck wide enough and the maximum angle of the Harrier's nosewheel steering gear great enough that it can taxi aft and then essentially make a U-turn at the aft end of the deck, wasting little or no T/O run? TIA, Guy |
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