Took awhile for the message to get out, but those that spin are now on the story. Even if they are not very convincing.
Aboulafia--who is about as accurate as a Vietnam era Sparrow when talking about mil-aerospace issues--thinks the YF-17 is the same issue.
Get out the popcorn.
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After 8 or so years since being awarded the JSF contract the tail hook is a design problem? Sounds more like gross incompetence.
Reminds me of that travel commercial...
Did you close the sun roof on the car before we left? Yah, Yah!
I have allergies, there's no seafood in this dish right?
Yah, Yah!
You remembered to design the tail hook to carrier landing specifications right?
Yah, Yah!
Exactly, gross stupidity and incompetence.
Heretic here.
The only hook that catches 100% of the time on this program is the one that gouges taxpayers for more money to fix what was built borken in the first place, by design.
While pessimistic, I'm taking a wait-and-see approach towards the hook and damper modification as a solution, if only because stranger things have happened...
Aboulafia's apologistic reference to the YF-17, however, is truly asinine, and destroys what few remaining shreds of credibility he still possessed. Not only because no YF-17 has ever made a carrier trap, but also because neither it, nor the very different F/A-18 that evolved from it, suffer from the inherent incompatibility between the physics of carrier-type arrested landings,and the basic structural geometry limitations that plague the STOVL-optimized F-35 design.
This is so obvious that only two plausible conclusions can be drawn in explanantion of Aboulifia's curious assertions: That he is being deliberately duplicitous and disingenuous, or that he is cognitively impaired...
JRL
I agree with JRL, let's wait and see. I think LMT has a good chance of fixing this problem with the redesigned hook. So this is one where we will just have to wait a few months for next batch of tests...
On the other hand, if they have to move the hook, that would be real bad for the program...
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