They should rename them Take-off Gear

[rpm]

Because you don't really need them to land! 

[Slash27]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9tvdjDAr1U

Fine work.

[cpxxx]

I'll bet that's not the first time that happened. That gadget doesn't look like something they just happened to have lying around on a carrier deck.

Neat bit of flying skill though. In the RAF only the best of their pilots got to fly Harriers. I guess the Marines have a similar policy.

[rpm]

That gadget doesn't look like something they just happened to have lying around on a carrier deck.

Yeah, they'd never use those for maintenance in the hanger.

[Slate]

  Makes me want to go buy a Marine Bobblehead. 

[DaveBB]

A USMC harrier in the 90s couldn't get its gear down, so the commander of the base had 20+ bed mattresses put on the runway for the Harrier to land on.  Guess what?  The harrier sucked the mattresses into the engine and what would have been minor damage turned into a MAJOR incident.

[Vudu15]

Yeah, they'd never use those for maintenance in the hanger.

why not they look like the things we used for out hawks when doing long term maintenance with gear and struts off.

[GScholz]

The pilot said it was called "the stool" and it was designed specifically for this kind of thing...

[craz07]

why is it so small.. 

[rpm]

why not they look like the things we used for out hawks when doing long term maintenance with gear and struts off.

I'm sorry. I should have tagged that /sarcasm for you.

[DaveBB]

It looks like he landed pretty hard actually.  See how much the pilot bounces around in the cockpit?  Not a criticism, just an observation.

[craz07]

It looks like he landed pretty hard actually.  See how much the pilot bounces around in the cockpit?  Not a criticism, just an observation.

Well the pilot did a good job with his pinpoint landing there.. a bit bumpy.. lol butt no doubt the type of guy you want piloting those things lol

[GScholz]

Didn't look harder than a normal Harrier landing. Just a lot more travel and dampening in the actual nose wheel than in that "stool".

[craz07]

that "stool" is probably dead now 

[Cthulhu]

Didn't look harder than a normal Harrier landing. Just a lot more travel and dampening in the actual nose wheel than in that "stool".

No doubt. Not sure what the gear stroke is for the Harrier, but it's 24 inches for conventional carrier aircraft. That "stool" probably has no more than 6 inches of compliance. The pilot did a great job.