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| Lockheed Martin test pilot David Nelson is at the controls of F-35A AF-4 for the first intentional departure from controlled flight as part of the high angle of attack testing being performed at the Air Force Test Center at Edwards AFB, California. This first departure test sortie occurred on AF-4 Flight 148 on 4 December 2012. |
Tuesday, January 08, 2013
F-35 First Departures
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Not bad for a «turkey»...
ReplyDeleteSMSgt Mac was right : the only way to kill the program is due to budget not merit.
After all the problems it is shapping up to be a great strike fighter.
I wonder if the usual suspects will say something about this...or talk about it saying its not really doing so well and that an F-4 upgraded would be much better...
Ha, what use is the (less-than-stellar) stealth when you leave a bloody contrail!
ReplyDelete/ sarcasm off
i'll bet money thats not a contrail but smoke being put out by the airplane so that its track can be more easily monitored.
DeleteOf course it is...but im beting that is what the critics will point out...
ReplyDeletejust like the fact that the plane was limited to 4,5G during initial testing and they assumed that was the planes actual G limit and compared it to the F-105...when a prototype reached 9,9 Gs in testing in 25 October 2011 it once again proved the critics wrong...but they keep sayng to this day that the JSF is not an agile plane and cant fight outher fighters...
I'd bet it is a contrail: you just don't care about them during flight test.
ReplyDeleteAs the last word publically uttered concerning F-35 LO performance is that it is meeting expectations, by definition the LO is "optimal".