STOVL F-35B JSF first hover - March 17

Lockheed Martin video of the Mar 17 first hover the a STOVL F-35B Joint STrike Fighter, aircraft BF-1, at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland. The flight began with a conventional takeoff before F-35 lead STOVL pilot Graham Tomlinson initiated conversion to STOVL mode at 200 knots airspeed. He then slowed the aircraft to 60 knots and flew a decelerating approach to a zero airspeed hover at 150 feet above the runway. This marked the first free air hover by the F-35B. Upon reaching zero airspeed, the pilot executed test points to confirm the controllability of the aircraft in the hover. After completing all hover test points, the pilot executed a STOVL landing at 70 knots airspeed.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• aviation
• aircraft
• F-35
• JSF
• STOVL

[0oooo0me0oooo0]

That pilot is very very lucky

[redfieldTnT]

All we need to do now is figure how to make these into saucer shape.

[Videoho3000]

@erichathy222 Yeah but who invented it? We have advanced as a human species more in the last 100 hundreds then in all of humanities existence, I hear it's because a lot of the technology was taken from star visiting craft's that were shot down by concentrated government "microwave weapons" of some sort. Have you heard any of this?

[marksapollo]

Has this thing entered service yet? I still can't help think it looks fugly with all those cover open!

[Fivetoone215]

@bosox2430 aliens have the noise factor on lockdown

[artman479]

graham tomlinson cheif uk test pilot lol...

[gianboy2001]

BULLSHIT!!! Chuck Norris is just blowing that thing to stay off the ground... Another American Propaganda....

[brown9708]

Why isn't Walmart in the video?

[kenntracie]

AWESOME! NOW CLOSE THE GEAR AND WILL LOOK EVEN MORE BETTER!

[GodGouken]

is there any more videos?



[zamardii12]

Same jet from Live Free or Die Hard!

[myudelson]

@myudelson just checked, Yakovlev 141 was supersonic already and it can take off vertically, which I gather F-35B doesn't.