F-35 Vertical Landing

My brother just sent me this link. He has something to do with the project.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPy7FuA0Z6A
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too cool, thats good use of my tax dollars

And this is different from the Harrier how??????

Looks like another hungry defense contrator.

Probably the best program I've seen about the F35 is Nova - Battle Of the X-Planes.

About 2 hours, talks about the compation between Boeing and Lockheed Martin.

wreckerman893 said:

And this is different from the Harrier how??????

Looks like another hungry defense contrator.

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40 years newer and has stealth capabilities for starters.

major cost set backs and is way behind schedule!

Another great video.... BBC News - Inside the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter

Possibly "the last manned fighter" as this pilot attests.

USAFSS-ColdWarrior said:

Another great video.... BBC News - Inside the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter

Possibly "the last manned fighter" as this pilot attests.

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Unmanned seems to be the wave of the future. Great great grandkids will look at these old military trucks and think "wow I can't believe someone actually sat in that thing and drove it.

Someone sent me this in an e-mail. Probably has some fake elements (The plane seems to float away in level flight with very little airspeed.)

Battle of the X planes part 1 is available thru PB
Nova 105 episodes 48.2 GB (download torrent) - TPB

jimk said:

Someone sent me this in an e-mail. Probably has some fake elements (The plane seems to float away in level flight with very little airspeed.)

Battle of the X planes part 1 is available thru PB
Nova 105 episodes 48.2 GB (download torrent) - TPB

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IMHO, it's all real.
However, in this clip, thanks to some quick editing the actual time necessary to to transition from hover/vertical flight mode to aerodynamic/thrus=lift mode is "misrepresented" as instantaneous. The morphing from hover to airplane actually takes a few seconds.

Like the HARRIER before it, the F35 can perform full-hover moves, much like a helicopter. I've even seen the Harrier flown into a 4-lane highway tunnel, pivoted around it's own axis while inside, and then fly (in hover mode) right back out the same tunnel portal through which it had entered. This was done to demonstrate that it could be hidden/bunkered in existing structures in a potential battle zone.

The F35 can do the same thing with much less pilot control input (and risk of fatal error).

that is one bad plane

swbradley1 said:

40 years newer and has stealth capabilities for starters.

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...and the entire exhaust nozzle can pivot 90 degrees which means no more nozzles in the most vulnerable part of the aircraft, and has a ducted fan for use in hover mode. Aside from stealth, it has a much much lower infra red signature than the Harrier.