by John Reed on May 24, 2011
Good morning, let’s start things off with this video of the F-35C carrier variant Joint Strike Fighter’s recent flyby at Joint Base Andrews’ air show last weekend. The flight marked the first-ever air show appearance by an F-35.
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"I can't wait to see the fucker on full afterburner pulling straight into vertical."
I agree.
Indeed. The F119 was nice and all but the F135 builds on it at the cost of supercruise. I imagine there is no point re-engining the F-22 with engines based on the more-powerful F135, especially if the program is stopped at <190 airframes. Would be an interesting "interceptor" variant worth thinking about.
OMG I was thinking the same thing.
I see them do that almost every day. That's CF-02, the second carrier variant here at Pax.
I was able to see the the first C model naked getting drop tested at my work.
What a sled! It looks like a damn S-3 compared to that F-18, and we already knew the F-18 was a sled.
I swear to god, when the F-35 flew by I thought it sounded like "boooondoggle".
And did anyone else seriously noticed that only like 3 people cheered and clapped in that video?! They were all probably Lockheed execs. LMAO
I was there, but I was too busy taking pics to clap
Quit picking on the looks of f 119, just because it looks like the f-22 the guys at pratt (1998) thought the guppie boeing would win- the things gorgeous!