One more time I took a quick look through thousands of Oshkosh pictures. As always in these cases, the archive had left me reassured it would be good for feeding the blog with imagery for at least another decade. Then maybe, I’ll need to go to the ‘AirVenture’ again for ‘refreshing’ 
So, now there’s a few images, and a video of the ‘Harrier’, a ‘Vertical Take-Off and Landing’ (VTOL) aircraft.
A news about a couple of the The United States Marine Corps’ Harriers, that we heard would be preforming in the afternoon part of the show on a second day of our stay at Oshkosh, left me in anticipation of something very special that was going to be seen. And how it turned, ‘all allowances given disappointed no one’
Watching this stunning performance, I caught myself thinking of the impressive Harriers in a way that they seemed to me extraordinary not only because you, intellectually, realize they are ‘powerful combat aircraft with unique flying capabilities’, but also because their flying looked.. creepy - I mean, especially that part of it when they would start rapidly decelerate in the middle of a high-speed low pass, and then - stop in the mid-air completely, hover in front of the crowd that densely populate all the length along the West-side of RW 18-36, turn round slowly to face a tremendous gathering of spectators, and bow to them.. Perhaps, it was not only me who caught oneself sensing a slight shiver on the back: “Yeah! Glad to be a spectator, but not the.. ”
.. and you exhale a good sigh of relief, along with the plane, after it finally settles down on the ground, its engines’ roar changed to a moderate, not even unpleasant turbine whine, and the crowd explode with a lengthy round of applause
Great job, well done!
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