F-35 Joint Strike Fighter News, Videos and pics Thread

[paintgun]

re: F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Thread

well if its metal, anything they change can screw any simulation and tests they make before hand

a centimetre of sticking metal at the wrong place can light up like an antenna, not that F-35 has anything to brag about it's hind part though

but it is another big work to do, IMHO

 

[delft]

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, referred to in #128:

An industry expert who is a graduate Flight Test Engineer (FTE) of the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School (USNTPS), Peter Goon, stated that, "Given the limited amount of suitable structure at the back end of the JSF variants, due primarily to the commonality that was being sought between the three variant designs and the fact that the STOVL F-35B JSF is the baseline design, there was always going to be high risk associated with meeting the carrier suitability requirements."

This is just what I meant when I said it is better to design three separate aircraft with common systems. Just remember the expensive parts of a modern combat aircraft are its engine(s), its sensors, its weapon systems and the life support of the pilot. Besides that the bare aircraft costs is, what is it, 20 % of the whole? In order to save on that all three versions are compromised, development time is three or four years longer, development cost is much larger and, last but not least, one design team instead of three is being employed. It's sickening. Decisions have clearly been taken by ignorant people.

 

[Air Force Brat]

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Yeah, one of us F-22 lovers prolly snuck in there an mucked up the works, it really doesn't give me a lot of confidence in this whole bird. Fire the F-22 line back up, and sell our neighbors a good airplane, and let them help us pay for a few more for us in the process. Tar and feather that goofy congressman, Obey, while we're at it.

 

[navyreco]

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[delft]

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It was late yesterday when I wrote my last post. In bed I remembered RN, that went from the B version to the C version, which now looks as unlikely to succeed. Soon it will have two large aircraft carriers, one of which is likely for sale, and no jets to operate from them.
Btw, the second photograph on the post above shows F-35 and F-18 flying probably at the same speed on parallel flight path, and both probably lightly loaded and only the F-35 shows condensation in the tip vortices. This suggest that the wing loading of the F-35 is higher and manoeuvrability lower than for F-18.

 

[bd popeye]

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F-35A test aircraft AF-4, captured during refueling from the U.S. Air Force tanker.

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F-35B test aircraft BF-5 flies in short takeoff/vertical landing mode on Jan. 5, 2012.

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In preparation for delivery, F-35B production aircraft BF-8 flies its first government flight on Dec. 16, 2011.

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Lockheed Martin test pilot Bill Gigliotti flies F-35B production aircraft BF-7 on its first flight Dec. 21, 2011. The short takeoff/vertical landing aircraft will be delivered to the U.S. Marine Corps after completing initial checkout flights at Lockheed Martin’s facility in Fort Worth, Texas.

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F-35B test aircraft BF-1 flight in short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) mode on Jan. 5, 2012.

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F-35B test aircraft BF-5 completes its first vertical landing at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md., on Jan 5, 2012.


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[Equation]

re: F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Thread

Thanks for the awesome pics Popeye.

 

[paintgun]

re: F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Thread

nice pictures, thanks popeye

can't help to imagine how hard they cram all the stuffs inside the bird, and it still looks a bit bulky, it is almost asking for the impossible wanting the capabilities out of this weight class

 

[bd popeye]

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Thanks paintgun..I'll post them as I find them!

 

[Jeff Head]

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Thanks paintgun..I'll post them as I find them!

Thans popeye.

All the talk about the F-35 being potentially cancelled just is not going anywhere IMHO. The Obama admin may well slow it down...but I predict all three variants will be made in numbers and they will do a fine job.

Too much depends on it at this point...for the US and its aging fleet of aircraft in all htree services (Air Force, MArines and Navy), as well as for so many of our allies.

They may have wrinkles to work out...but they will and in the end I believe it will be (along with the F-16) the most high;ly built and exported aircraft the west has developed.