The Ultimate Fighter Jet 1 of 3

what airplane is taking off at 7:29?

F-15E Strike Eagle

char1eston - no need to get all emotional now.

all of you under me are bethetic losers...while you guys are talking about which country invented the jet engine...why dont you do wat i do and go study aironomics and maybe some day you could invent some thing that losers could be debating about 20-50 years from now...

Dont let your menstruation cycle get the betterment of you. There really is no need to act like that.

F-35s in slicked configuration (all stores internal to maintain stealth) can only carry 2 bombs. 2- 2,000 pounders in the A and C models and only 2- 1,000 pounders in the B models. This goes up to six with external stores. the F-35's selling point is its ability to get to 'center of mass' targets by evading defenses with its stealth and ECM and using precision guidance to destroy Achilles heel type targets with JDAMs. The F-35 is less a high capacity pickup truck and more a two seat coup.

The F-22 was not operational at the time of this video being aired. Estimated per unit cost of the F-22, $138-177 million per copy or about $339-361 million per if development costs are included. The F-35 was projected to cost $112 million per copy in 2005 (not sure if that includes development costs.) The F-35 was supposed to be only $50 mil per. Both planes were intended as silver bullets capable of replacing entire fleets of legacy aircraft with a handful of ultra high tech wonder planes.

The appalling costs are a result of losing the economy of scale enjoyed by previous designs.

The brits built the first jet engine, but realized the technology wasn't mature enough to justify putting all of their resources into building a jet plane. Instead they flooded the skies with Spits and Hurricanes. Only near the end of the war did they bother with building Meteors. The Germs by that time had the ME-262 up and going but with little impact. The resources they put into the 262 could have seen better use elsewhere. Only the allies benefited from development of the ME-262.

I googled it, some sources claim that it was actually built and tested in Austria. I have to do some more research because I'm not sure.