Harrier Jump Jet in popular culture
The Harrier Jump Jet has unique characteristics which have led to it being featured a number of films and video games.
Films
- The James Bond movie The Living Daylights.
- Aerialbot Slingshot in The Transformers.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger flies an AV-8B in the movie True Lies. According to the Internet Movie Database, the filmmakers paid the U.S. government $100,736 (or about $2,400 an hour) for the use of three US Marine Corps Harriers and their pilots.
- Several AV-8B's appear in the film Battlefield Earth, engaging in dogfights with Psychlo craft in the film's climax.
Computer flight simulators
- AV8B Harrier Assault (Amiga)
- Janes ATF Gold
- Harrier Jump Jet
- US Navy Fighters
- addons for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 (PC MS-DOS and Windows).
Computer flight simulators
- Red Alert 2 features harrier jump jets, in which you can build if you play as the allies, (allthough they cannot attack air to air).
Advertising
- As part of its Pepsi Stuff marketing campaign, Pepsi ran an ad promising a Harrier jet to anyone who collected 7,000,000 Pepsi Points. This ploy backfired when a group of investors actually collected and sent in the requisite points. A lawsuit ensued (Leonard v. Pepsico, Inc.), where it was ruled that any reasonable person would conclude that the ad was a joke.