Word: harriers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...harrier Rodney Garland dueled successfully with freshman John Murphy for the lead, rewriting another facility record, while in the two mile event John and Bob Flora grabbed the top two slots for Northeastern...
Only 19 seconds but four places farther back in this tightly bunched race finished Ed Sheehan. Mark Meyer, six seconds in front of Eichner, followed Sheehan in twelfth place, two slots ahead of fifth Crimson harrier Thad McNulty who came home...
...Crimson harrier hung tough in the aftermath, however, and Eichner and Rafto managed to post excellent times of 4:33 and 4:37 respectively, at the mile mark. Sheehan ran extremely well for most of the race, dueling with B.C.'s Roach for possession of the second slot, until he tightened up in the last half mile and was passed by a group of runners...
Marine Corps enthusiasm may be the root of the Harrier's troubles. General Carey acknowledges that the decision to assign young pilots fresh from flight school to qualify as pilots of the complicated Harrier, along with the Marines' usual penchant for difficult missions, may have been factors in the crashes. Senior officers in the British Royal Air Force agree...
...Marines, they argue, underes timated the difficulties of flying a plane that rises and descends on a hot shim mering column of air blasted from its own nozzles, which the pilot must swivel horizontally for ordinary flight. One reason why not just any eager young pilot should fly a Harrier, says British Air Commodore Paddy Hines, is that it must often fly at be tween 250 and 500 ft. - an exercise demanding "high concentration and a very hard work load from its pilots." Two-thirds of the R.A.F. Harrier pilots had at least 1,000 flying hours on other aircraft...