Read the press release. Funny as the pilot training program is grounded until they can conjure up a safe flying effort.
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nico
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Will we find out how many hours those 2 birds are flying? Wonder why they haven't been "transferred" back to the testing program to make up the lost time? It is true that according to LMT we are on track,even ahead of schedule, they just forget to say it is the revised timeline...not the old one.
I am sure you are aware that they are more than a month "late".
Got this from Globalsecurity:
..."As of 2002 the Marine Corps planned to deploy 609 F-35Bs. STOVL first flight was to be in early 2006, with first delivery in 2008, and IOC 2010. The Marine Corps, with an IOC planned for 2010, would be the first of the military services to operate a fleet of F-35s."
So, would that be the same parallel/alternate universe where manouverability is irrelevant, and you can buy an invisible supersonic STOVL supercomputer that will unfailingly see everything around it within 800 miles, for $65M AND still have a 6-1 air superiority advantage over any other jet that isn't called 'Raptor'?
You know, the one that you get to by going down a rabbit hole...
It seems that, among other myriad problems, they're having a bit of a hard time keeping the roll post doors from going AWOL.
From the 2011 DOT&E report:
"Doors separated from aircraft BF-2 and BF-3 during flight; door loads not well understood, aero pressures higher than expected. Impact not limited to STOVL mode operations – flight *not to exceed 400 KCAS* below 18K ft and 0.5 minimum g-load"
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Will we find out how many hours those 2 birds are flying? Wonder why they haven't been "transferred" back to the testing program to make up the lost time? It is true that according to LMT we are on track,even ahead of schedule, they just forget to say it is the revised timeline...not the old one.
The bird(s) are about one month late arriving at Eglin. On 9 Dec 2011 LM predicted an arrival of the first aircraft during the week on 12 Dec.
To ANON,
I am sure you are aware that they are more than a month "late".
Got this from Globalsecurity:
..."As of 2002 the Marine Corps planned to deploy 609 F-35Bs. STOVL first flight was to be in early 2006, with first delivery in 2008, and IOC 2010. The Marine Corps, with an IOC planned for 2010, would be the first of the military services to operate a fleet of F-35s."
Take a look at the 2003 F-35 SDD and ask yourself how far behind the JSF Program really is?
Why according to this we reached IOC for the USMC variant last year.
http://www.ausairpower.net/JSF-Schedule-2003-1S.jpg
To Cocidius:
Makes you wonder, in some parallel/alternate universe, the JSF is already in service, maybe was even used in combat for the first time over Libya...
So, would that be the same parallel/alternate universe where manouverability is irrelevant, and you can buy an invisible supersonic STOVL supercomputer that will unfailingly see everything around it within 800 miles, for $65M AND still have a 6-1 air superiority advantage over any other jet that isn't called 'Raptor'?
You know, the one that you get to by going down a rabbit hole...
It seems that, among other myriad problems, they're having a bit of a hard time keeping the roll post doors from going AWOL.
From the 2011 DOT&E report:
"Doors separated from aircraft BF-2 and BF-3 during flight;
door loads not well understood, aero pressures higher
than expected. Impact not limited to STOVL mode
operations – flight *not to exceed 400 KCAS* below 18K ft
and 0.5 minimum g-load"
JRL
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