F-35 Joint Strike Fighter News, Videos and pics Thread
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Well those leggy super-models are high stepping chicks, and yes she looks the part, she could no doubt grace the cover of Cosmo along with the T-50 and the J-20, perhaps Master Deino will even work on a cover for Air Combat Monthly with all the girls looking cute?
It does us well to remember that the F-35 is a Striker, but she most certainly will have her own charms, short and cute? more the "girl next door" type of chick, the type of girl who will get you out of bed, fix your breakfast and your lunch, and take a bite out of your sandwich, just to show the world that you are her man! She will find your target, launch a missile off some other characters F-18, pick up the bad guys that are coming after you from her big sisters look down radar, launch a couple of AAMRAMS to neutralize the threat, then fade back into the woodwork to take you home to a steak and a "kold beverage"?
and on a personal note to you Master Forbin, we had a lady in our morning worship who lives in Paris, and has for nearly forty years, she was very much in the know and her husband is a Dr. of Particle Physics, working with super-conductors? very nice couple, she teaches Greek to French people in French?? she was also a scientist in a biological field?
yes that little picture I put up on the thread a few days ago was one my little brother sent me from Air Venture, there is a nice u-tube video posted of their arrival as well. My little brother stated the air-shos were Very Good, the F-35 did not put on an aerial display, but maybe next year?
Yes, very similar to the static appearance of these two at Gunfighter Skies last year here in Idaho which I attended with the wife and a couple of grandkids.
But you know those babies flew in and out of there and I wish I could have seen that.
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LM label under this angle would swear that it is a F-22
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Yes, and this view illustrates that the F-35 does have plenty of wing and tail to do the job, to have a normal operational AoA of 50 degrees puts to rest much of the criticism of this aircraft, while it is heavy with a high wing loading, that wing is very strong and works very hard flying this aeroplane, and indeed the F-35 is very pretty from the lower quadrant, while the F-22 is almost "organic" in its appearance, appearing to be some large predatory bird, especially with those "tail feathers"?
LM label under this angle would swear that it is a F-22
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This is also an excellent teachable moment as you look at the forward fuselage, the intakes flowing very smoothly and sweetly into the leading edge of the main wing, which is very possibly as large as say Typhoon or Rafael, or even J-10 for instance??? I would encourage you to "run your kodaks" as my Great Uncle Henry used to say? over this whole aircraft. That forward fuse produces a lot of lift, and that continues over and through the intakes and smoothly into the main wing and aft fuse. This is the lifting body concept well illustrated in a pragmatic and functional aircraft, it all works together.
Granted it is easy looking at that side profile, and smallish appearing main wing to convince your-self that this aircraft has a small wing, but you don't pull 9.9 Gs positive, or fly to 73degrees angle of attack as AF-2 has been without a LOTs of lift being generated, in fact AF-2 was then pushed well past 90degrees angle of attack, likely post stall, and recovered with out incident, or the need to deploy the spin chute for recovery? the proof is a they say in the pudding.