Ewald Schuster saw his first Hawker Siddeley Harrier at age nine and was so captivated by the machine that he devoted 22 of the next 34 years of his life to creating a fully functioning radio control scale model of the vertical take-off aircraft.
This coming spring, on a dry lake bed in the high California desert, the research laboratory technician at the University of Southern California (USC) will get to find out if the all-composite third-generation Harrier he built with the help a few dozen engineering students will fly, or more importantly, whether it will transition.
While jet-powered radio-controlled (RC) models are becoming the rage in the hobbyist world, no-one as of yet has developed a properly functioning scale Harrier, meaning one that can perform the transition between hover and forward flight and vice versa using four articulated mid-body nozzles and attitude control puffers on the wings, nose and tail. Read More HERE
I can really understand what motivated Edward in his project. The Harrier is a truly special aircraft and personally speaking as a young man going to War in the Falkland Islands knowing we had Harries with us gave me a lot of confidence we would win the War. Iam happy that the Harrier will fly on with the USMC. Semper Fi.
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