AV-8B Harrier II

The AV-8B Harrier II is a decedent of  Harrier jet I saw when stationed at Okinawa AB in the early '80s.  The design is late 80's as an American version of a British Harrier.  The purpose of the aircraft is V/STOL, Vertical Short Take Off and Landing.  This design allows the craft to essentially hover and fly close to super sonic.  Daniel Bernoulli is rolling in the grave.  A fixed wing aircraft is supposed to use Mr. Bernoulli's principals to create lift over the fixed wing by moving forward at some speed.  The makers of the Rolls-Royce Pegasus engines have overcome gravity.
The aircraft is multi-purpose.  It has been used for close in air support, escort, fighter, and many other roles.  It can be outfitted with missiles, bombs and has a 25 mm cannon.  Gun at a knife fight sort of stuff.  (I said this a lot at the show.)

This was taken in the 1.3 image size, which means instead of a 20 mega-pixel, it is about 12 MP.  I get a bit more reach through the lens with this.  it says the focal length is 210 mm, but is is closer to 420 mm by the time all the math is done.
The original image is very dark.  I had to get a bit creative with creating duplicate images that were much lighter and then doing some blending magic.  There will be a lot of that in my future with these images.

At this time the sun was almost directly overhead.  Everything under the wings and undercarriage was dark.  The trick was to get some light in the shadows.  there was also some sun burn on the top of the aft section which needed some darkening.  The reflection of the blue sky is visible on the cockpit canopy.  There is a blue reflective haze everywhere.  The trees might be a bit over-saturated, but what the heck, I was in South Carolina.