March 10, 2010 F-35B Test Landing

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Test pilot Graham Tomlinson guides the supersonic F-35B Lightning II stealth fighter in a 40-knot (46 mph) flight above Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md., then descends for a 75-knot (86 mph) slow landing. The flight on Wednesday, March 10, was one of the last missions before the aircraft's first vertical landing. The F-35B features a shaft-driven lift fan propulsion system that produces more than 41,000 pounds of vertical thrust, enabling airspeeds from zero to Mach 1.6. F-35B customers include the U.S. Marine Corps, the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force and Royal Navy, and the Italian Air Force and Navy.

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  • You do realize I only referenced the lift system when it came to Yak's involvement in the F-35 project right? Hell Yakovlev sold the lift system principle to Lockheed for 400 million USD. The Yak uses 3 engines where the F-35 uses only one. The F-35b employs a lift fan in place of the 41M's lift jet which makes it more fuel efficient. To my eye the F-35 looks nothing like the 141 Freestyle which to me looks more like a Mig 25 or an F-15.

  • Finally that was awesome.!! Been waiting a long time for that.

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  • Такой самолет очень легко сбить

  • @sexisfun000

    Yak-141 uses several jet engines to gain lift, while F-35 uses 1.

    If you call that a facelift, then You are seriously mistaken.

    There are tons of crucial differences that puts this worlds apart from the Yak. Don't just look at things on the outside, but the inside too!

  • We need more F-22 !!!

  • цаг надень и в пепелаце сиди )))

  • Not fifth gen, good thing you know nothing about DAS then.

  • Actually 90% match is an understatement, i think it should be around 98-99% match. That's why I said it's a copy. There's no visible innovation compare to the Yak-141, but merely a face lift to the shape of the aircraft.

    It's like taking a 1987 ferrari engine, place it into a corvette, then call it the ultimate corvette aka zr1.

    US shouldn't call it a 5th generation fighter jet, it should be put in the 3th generation category.

  • sexisfun000, Lockheed Martin has come out and said that much. They even had some of the Yak team help develop the lift system. That makes it less a copy and more an homage to human ingenuity. The best things happen when multiple cultures work together for a common solution.

  • Hey czubspenx, before you attempt to sound intelligent, ensure your spelling and grammar are correct. We have good people working on these projects, which will eventually save American lives. "The Man" isn't always after you. This is the real world, not a college poli-sci class.

  • Does anybody wonder why we have all these pertetual wars?

    It's because the Military Industrial Complex makes billions and billions of dollars off of war!

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