F-35A AF-3 takes off on its seventh flight on 2 December 2010 with
Lockheed Martin test pilot Bill Gigliotti at the controls. The aircraft
is the first fully low-observable compliant F-35.
i like the F35, and saw the post about gates giving the B version another two years, but why did they try to make the most complicated version the closest IOC? why not get the basic concept plane and the kind that will be made most prolific first and get it fielded and then the less complex (C) and then take those lessons learned into the B version. i know that makes the B last fielded but seems more of a reliable way to implement this aircraft type.
Once it completes it's RCS testing it will get the Block1 upgrade....
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thanks for the info.
i like the F35, and saw the post about gates giving the B version another two years, but why did they try to make the most complicated version the closest IOC? why not get the basic concept plane and the kind that will be made most prolific first and get it fielded and then the less complex (C) and then take those lessons learned into the B version. i know that makes the B last fielded but seems more of a reliable way to implement this aircraft type.
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