Without external pylons:
Open weappons bays:
With external pylons and gun pod:
See all my High res F-35 shots at my
Yes, you can say she looks completely "organic", and the fit and finish are very precise, no doubt the stealth shaping is very effective, while I still don't really believe this chick is slicker than the F-22, on a good day she might be, don't forget that the Raptor's L/O is very dependant on keeping the coatings and seals in shape,,,,,, for those who aren't familiar with such things, gear doors, weapons bays, refueling doors, all get a little "shopworn" in not meticoulously maintained? Looks like she's "mugging" for the camera, and hey if I looked like that, I'd be looking for somebody with a camera!
and I had to explain all this for the Honey Badger???? she wanted to know why I was smiling, LOL?
notice the horizontal stabs are deflected upward to hold the nose above the horizon in the inverted position, almost all aircraft take a little more forward stick to maintain level flight when you are "inverted", from my experience the A-10 will not maintain altitude inverted flight, not to mention that all that dihedral make it very unstable in the roll axis. I am looking at the bottom picture, I do think the F-35will be a very precise A2G platform due to the helmet mounted sight and the EOTAS. While I love the old A-10, I would not want to fly one into the kind of airspace the F-35 will have to frequent to do its best work?
How will the J-31 stack up against the F-35,,,, I still tend to think the J-31 will be more A2A, but it will no doubt have some A2G capabiity, it tends to reflect the earlier generation shaping of the F-117 and the F-22, much more angular, it will take a more fully developed pre-production prototype to really start to give some indication of real world RCS??
Did I say this airplane is growing on me, the ThunderHoggeII, even the B in the top picture is as slick as a "babys butt" in Johnson and Johnson's baby oil, yeah my Momma used to coat me in that stuff when we went to the beach, so yeah, I'm all in on this bird now! and the J-31, both very pretty airplanes, and I think Pakistan ought to buy at least 24 to get the ball rolling!
