Correct, Comrade. The General Designer lacked the necessary Rotring skills.
“famous Revell ATB model kit”
Which was in turn derived from product of well known OKB Суитман…
Interesting, Signatory…
I wonder when we will hear more.
DJCross –
On the other hand, Sweetman is a journalist (an experienced one), but he has no independent analytical ability to determine when his sources are BSing him.
That explains why all his worries about the program have proven unfounded, and why it is on budget and on schedule. Wait, what?
The problem for the F-35 supporters is that Venlet is now busily demonstrating that the program’s critics were in many cases right.
It’s the Blair Stealth Project!
Right on, Pinko!
I swear that they bring out the basketball team to stand around the jet one day, and the fifth-grade class the next, just to mess with our heads.
Presumably the truck can be ID’d.
What I have heard often is that high-speed taxi actually tells you more than first flight these days. Get that done, crunch the data, and FF is a matter of weather and the jet being in flight condition.
Looks like someone hit it with China’s secret surface-to-air paintball gun
Useful find and pretty well knocks the F-35 supercruise argument on the head.
Now think of what the envelope looks like for the 3000 lb heavier B, or the 5500 lb heavier C.
Ick.
pfcem –
“This is a sore point with me because for years people have been casting aspersions at whatever I write about the F-35 simply because I am a consultant to Lockheed.”
– Dr Loren Thompson, April 9 2010
I would respectfully suggest that you stop making dogmatic statements without making any attempt to determine the facts. Not that you will, but a man can dream.
pfcem
What schedule, indeed, are they behind by 6 months? And what’s your view of the DOT&E report, that says that they’ll be about 18 months late relative to the early-2008 sked, if they take corrective action and all goes well?
I’m beginning to think you are the Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist F-35 Fan Church.
I have always held that agility is the ability to change from one maneuver state to another. But the definition is squishy.
Will it help?!
No, but at least it will keep pfcem busy somewhere else for a minute or two.