Posted on 12/02/2006 6:19:26 AM PST by MARKUSPRIME
Watch the X-35B (experimental Marine version of the F-35) as it became the world's first plane to have a short take-off, fly super sonic, and then vertically land - all in one flight!
Yowsa, what a video!
GREAT DEAL!!!
I know it's not an AF plane but I can't help humming "Off we gooooo into the wild blue yonder...."
The F-35A is an airforce plane.They are three variants.
Thanks great video.
The Harrier was'nt supersonic and it was newer than the german jet.
Questions for pilots. What is the jagged pattern in the canopy for? Why do they call it short take off when it clearly can lift straight up and move?
It can lift straight up and take off but that burns more fuel than a short take off. The Jagged edges are for lower rcs and to deflect radar waves.
If you mean the thing thats in the top glass thats and antenna farm they are all over the F-22 and F-35
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I cant get this to open.
Any suggestions would be help full.
Thanks.
The link won't open for me, either...
The Jagged pattern is to break up any lines that could leave a signature for radar to pick up.
OK, I figured it out. Here's what you do:
1. Go to military.com
2. Sign up for a free membership
3. Click on the Video: F-35 JSF Lightning II link in the "Shock and Awe" window on the main page
Try right clicking and save it to your desktop. Then double click the saved icon and it should play. Or you can save it to any folder on your hard drive.
Loaded with a lot of bombs and a full fuel load and such even a Harrier cannot actually take off purely vertically - they need a short take off roll - same is true of the F-35.
Yeah just save it and play.
Thanks for the great post.
Thanks for posting.
You might enjoy this..A friend of mine, whose son flies P-3s for the Navy, says that Marine Harrier pilots say that they don't really land vertically on carriers. Rather, they hover as best they can in a stationary position, ( Harriers are touchy) and the captain drives the boat UNDER the plane...(G)
One serious question...in the vertical landing mode, how do they prevent FODding...You'd think that the tremendous airflow down against the ground would bounce back lots of small objects..stones, etc..especially when landing on fields, roads, etc, and that would damage the fan blades and the tail nacelle...
"It will be in service for the next forty years."
And, at its retirement ceremony it will be saluted with a flyover by a flight of B-52s.
The truly remarkable things about the X-35B were:
1. The engine exhaust nozzle, which could be swiveled 90 degrees at full power, and
2. The forward lift fan, which was powered by a power takeoff shaft from the main engine.
These two things had never been done before, and they prove that including a pre-selection technology demonstration was wise.
TC
Our son worked at skunkworks on the jSF before the contract was awarded to Lockheed - he is now in Fort Worth working on flight test and loving every minute of it.
He wanted to build airplanes from the time he was a little kid - I guess he got his wish!
I love watching all the footage I can find of the JSF. Being raised on AF bases gives you a huge love and appreciation of planes - and that was during the SAC era of B-52s. If you can sleep thru those takeoffs and flyovers, you can sleep thru anything.
Go Bucks
I think that jagged pattern in the glass is det cord to shatter the canopy during an ejection.
Not in level flight but Harriers are still breaking Mach 1 in dives on an almost daily basis around the world.
Good observation, which is why landings into unimproved areas, ie pavement, aren't done. Most, not all, FOD will be blown out and away from the aircraft but hot gas ingestion is the real concern. The Harrier and the Boeing entry into the JSF competition, the X-32, are both prone to ingesting hot exhaust gas into the intake causing compressor stalls. The X-32 suffered several stalls during flight testing and that was a major reason why the X-35 won the competition.
If we would just use our technological advantage to reduce the terrorists back to primordial sludge we would have been done with this war a long time ago.
Other have achieved the same. The Russians with the Yakovlev 141 also achieved supersonic flight. The UK abandoned the supersonic Harrier when the P.1154 was cancelled in the 1960s. Lockheed Martin went into consultation partnership with the Russian Yakolev design bureau on the propulsion and lift devices during the 1990s. This was the supersonic Yak-141 (Yak-41).
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