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An AV-8B Harrier II takes off nearly vertical during a flight demonstration at the 2005 Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point Air Show in Cherry Point, N.C., on May 7, 2005. The Harrier is assigned to Marine Attack Squadron 542 at Cherry Point.

An AV-8B Harrier II takes off nearly vertical during a flight demonstration.

An AV-8B Harrier II takes off nearly vertical during a flight demonstration at the 2005 Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point Air Show in Cherry Point, N.C., on May 7, 2005. The Harrier is assigned to Marine Attack Squadron 542 at Cherry Point.

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