.2 The problem with the X-32 stemmed from it taking off vertically, going, supersonic, and landing in the same configuration. when you put the radar blocker on, the plane had trouble breaking the sound barrier. with out the blocker, the plane wasn’t stealthy.

The X-32 had no troubles going supersonic, it had troubles with the STOVL thingy, not with speed and not with Stealth.I might have misread you (blaming the sparkling wine here, my wife just had the infortunate idea idea of opening a spare botle that survived the new year night…) but no one took a “radar blocker” off in order to go supersonic, they took off the “chin” in order to land (verticaly) the dam thing.

3. The x-32 had issues with hot gas ingestion near the ground, causing what appeared to be a near compressor stall in one instance.”

Yep

5. The X-32 was god awful ugly.

Oh yeah. If a mandatory KPP was something like “design the worst looking fighter since… well, ever” the X-32 would have won the JSF program!

Cheers

Quit posting sexy jets, topic is fugly ones 😉

However, even good looks can become bad looks simply by applying a crappy paint job.

Sorry 😮

I´ll try amends…

Goupil Duck (built by Glenn Curtiss at Buffalo, NY)

and a more recent one

Mirage was the beautiful plane I was referring too, much better looking than Rafale. Only the Mirage F1 was a bit ugly, all other Mirages are gorgeous, including the IV. The only thing with the Mirage 4000 is that it looks like they’ve taken the canopy from an F-15 😀

Well, if you like Mirages… you must be a decent chap 😀
Mind you, the Mirage family is composed of several diferent aircrafts, in fact if you think that the MIII, the MIV, and the M2000 are gorgeous then you love the looks of a great big piece of France´s combat aircraft family.

I´ll give you an (almost) ugly Mirage, here you go:

I’m not ‘anti-France’, but clearly there have been very few beautiful French aircraft.

Do give it a try to Arsenal´s (not the Arsene Wenger Arsenal) VG-33/36 or the Amiot 350/351/354 (below)

While Britain was designed many ugly ones, they have designed amongst the most beautiful too.
However, I’m well aware that the best looking jet aircraft of all was an Anglo-French design 😎

Well, i´ll leave a French uglie:

SNCAC NC 1071

and most ugly ones usually come from this one country

all their airplanes look pregnant.

?!

I know that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but…

Dude, seriously, the UK should consider joining the Next-Generation Bomber program. I mean c’mon, this would be a win-win situation for both countries! The US would get some additional technical and financial support to develop the thing and the UK would get a long range strike aircraft AND a second platform for launching nukes for a lot less money than if they were to develop something on their own.

Dude, you have just ressurrected a 2001 thread…

Snow

While “CUDA” is just an internal LM study, Darpa´s “Triple Target Terminator” is an actual program with a contract and budget alocation. And Darpa´s T3 is very much a long range BVR weapon.

http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/TTO/Programs/Triple_Target_Terminator_(T3).aspx

Cheers

Someone remind me what country China bought some of these from.

Mexico…
Obviously…