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Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II vertical lift capability

submitted by Kulpims T'dna

(kulpims)
1 decade 6 years 1 month 1 week ago

Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II is the short takeoff and vertical landing (STOVL) variant of the aircraft. Similar in size to the A variant, the B sacrifices some fuel volume for a vertical flight system. Vertical flight is by far the riskiest, and in the end, a decisive factor in design. Like the AV-8B Harrier II, the B's guns will be carried in a ventral pod.

On June 11th test pilot Graham Tomlinson, a former Royal Air Force Harrier pilot now employed by BAE Systems, performed a conventional takeoff at 10:17 a.m. CDT from Lockheed Martin’s Fort Worth facility. As planned, all initial F-35B flights will be made using conventional takeoffs and landings, with transitions to short takeoffs, hovers and vertical landings beginning early next year. Tomlinson guided the jet to 15,000 feet and performed a series of handling tests, engine-power variations and subsystems checks before landing at 11:01 a.m. CDT.

info from Lockheed Martin press release
original footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIsIzjVi7j4
wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-35_Lightning_II#F-35B
sift: http://www.videosift.com/video/Lockheed-Martin-X-35-VTOL-Test-Vertical-Take-Off-Landing
related: F35 Lightning II compilation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAdKzchkQ2M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDVxlPX0bp4

7 Comments

totaly awesome machine!

The Harrier may have gotten there before this but the way this does it is pretty sexy. Very nice engineering.

thankfully for pilots, also a fuckload more stable with that center thrust.

materials alone would've prevented that being built, at the time of the harrier.
rpm's must make a motorcycle wheel appear to stand still by comparison.

Is this an animation? It doesn't look quite real.

>> ^NetRunner:
Is this an animation? It doesn't look quite real.

ya, it looks like a computer mock up...still very sexy Very transformerish

If anyone cares, the song in the video is High Roller by Crystal Method. One of my favorites.

MarineGunrock

Pft - you can see the strings @ :33.

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