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Aviation Week reports:
As senior Pentagon editor, there are perks to being a scribe. May 26, I had the opportunity to witness aviation history with a small group of reporters invited to the USS Wasp amphibious ship to witness a few hours of the first-ever F-35B Operational Test (OT-1) trials off the coast of North Carolina. I'm posting some of the many videos I collected to give our readers a sense of what we saw on the boat.
During OT-1, actual Marines -- not test overseers -- are operating the six F-35Bs that embarked May 18 for the tests; this includes pilots and maintainers. During DT (developmental testing), we got to see firsthand the first vertical landing and short takeoff at sea, but in OT-1, the Marines are demonstrating a cadence to operations to gain confidence the single-engine, stealthy fighters can assimilate into an air wing onboard the amphibious ship, which will include other platforms: the MV-22, CH-53E/K, AH-W/Z and unmanned air systems among them. This is all leading up to the operational debut of the F-35B, slated in July.
The article contains an 8 minute video of the F-35B with an accompanying written overview of what is occurring at various points during the video.
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday June 03 2015, @09:20PM
Pffff, if these F-35 pieces of shit kill anybody, it will be their pilots. I wouldn't be the least surprised to learn that they were running old versions of Windows CE on X86 processors. Woo, they have 3 versions! 3 versions of a ridiculously expensive plane that sucks at everything rather than having a few decent planes which are well-suited to their respective roles while costing a fraction of the price!
No fifth-generation piece of shit will match the coolness and reliability of the F-15, the baddest air-superiority aircraft to have ever rocketed through the sky.
The F-35 is a plastic unworkable monstrosity, and is one of the finest examples of the corporate welfare complex in the United States. If there is anything to have faith in it's the notion that these monsters will drop like flies should World War III ever break out...and then it will be up to the F-15's, F-16's, and F-18s* to shoot motherfuckers down. Even the Super Tucano [wikipedia.org] can kick the F-35's ass.
* Notice that the F-22 is conspicuously [wikipedia.org] absent [huffingtonpost.com] from this list.
(Score: 2) by Jeremiah Cornelius on Thursday June 04 2015, @12:41AM
How different is your Turcano from a Texan II ?
It looks like a derivation, with bigger vertical control surface - more classically "North-American Aviation" styled. :-)
You're betting on the pantomime horse...
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Thursday June 04 2015, @03:27AM
I'd bet on the Su-50 whooping all of the above if it came to a dogfight. That thing can fly backwards.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek