F-35...my first payware

[Woodlouse2002]

Nice plane. Pity the real thing is too heavy to fly operationally.

[C]

Nice plane. Pity the real thing is too heavy to fly operationally.

Well, to be fair, the real thing hasn't flown at all yet!

[igorski]

Erm, yes it has!

[C]

Erm, yes it has!

The X-35 has, not the F-35... Very similar on the surface, but quite different on the whole...

[igorski]

Hmm.. ok

[C]

Hmm.. ok

Its a strange situation I suppose. The X-32 and X-35 were strange in that they can hardly be called prototypes, but more (proof of) concept aircraft (much in a similar way to the P.1127 and Kestrel were to the Harrier). The first "real" JSF will be the development aircraft when they eventually appear (next year or the year after or whenever!)...

[maulepilot117]

for the life of me i cannot find that VTOL guage  ???
does anybody have a link to the page that it is on?