Screams from spectators as fighter jet stages mock NAPALM DROP at US airshow

Audio track heard recreating the sound of warfare as plane drops its round
Crowd watches as AV-8 Sea Harrier drops an incendiary bomb on runway
Napalm was used in World War II and the Vietnam War

Simon Cable for MailOnline

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03:31 EST, 1 October 2014

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06:02 EST, 1 October 2014

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Stunned spectators looked on in awe as a fighter jet staged a mock napalm drop at an airshow in North Carolina, US.

The footage, captured by Patrick Ortiz at the Winston-Salem airshow, shows a AV-8 Sea Harrier plane dropping the incendiary bomb onto a runway.

An audio track can also be heard recreating the sound of warfare as the plane drops its rounds.

Spectators at the show can be seen holding up their mobile phones to film the stunt.

As the plane flies by, it releases the mock napalm drop, sending flames shooting up into the sky from the field – and people can be heard screaming.

A huge plume of black smoke then rises up into the air.

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Napalm was first developed in 1942, in a secret laboratory at Harvard University in Massachusetts, by a team of chemists led by Louis Fieser.

The substance was first used as a weapon in World War II, where it was used to firebomb Japanese cities.

Napalm was first used as a weapon in World War II and later by US troops in the Vietnam War

An AV-8 Sea Harrier plane dropping the incendiary bomb onto a runway at the Winston-Salem airshow in the US

US troops used napalm from about 1965 to 1972 in the Vietnam War; napalm is a mixture of plastic polystyrene, hydrocarbon benzene, and gasoline.

This mixture creates a jelly-like substance that, when ignited, sticks to practically anything and burns for up to ten minutes.

A single bomb from an air raid was capable of destroying areas up to 2,500 square yards.

Throughout the duration of the Vietnam War eight million tons of napalm bombs were dropped over the country, more than three times the amount used in WWII.

It was during this conflict that napalm became the target of anti-war protesters, who mounted a nationwide campaign to stop Dow Chemical Co. from manufacturing it.