There are also RAF pilots qualified on F18. In fact, one of them, Flight Ltt Collins is the first euro pilot training top gun course atm.

Yes He was selected after an internship which included a tour on USS John C. Stennis.
the U.S. Navy offered him the opportunity to be involved in NSAWC Fallon.For the last five years he has flown in the US Navy, being a partaker of an exchange programme the purpose of which is to allow the British aviators get used to aircraft carriers operating conditions.

Collins quoted this statment:

The U.S. and the Royal Navy have worked together very closely on the Joint Strike Fighter program. The ultimate aim is for us to get some experience flying a jet with very similar capabilities to that one. It’s a good trade, the U.S. gets a pilot out of it and the Royal Navy gets the experience.

I wonder how his experiance was when he flown the SH.

It will be interesting to see how you explain away on how successful the F-35 is when in enters full squadron service. The fact is all of the partner nations for the aircraft believe in it and are staying with the program. Really, the people that “have access” praise its capabilities. As a matter of fact the critics like you that don’t believe in the program “have no access”. So, hmm I should believe you or the best experts from such countries as US, UK, Canada, Japan, Italy, etc. etc. etc. These include people in the aerospace field from the Private Sector and the Military. Yet, the “Armchair Generals” want us to believe they’re all wrong….LOL

Argh, IK your going to be sitting on that chair waiting for people to say the F-35’s better. Huh?

I at least know that you and me are head to head on each other with capable aircrafts. It’s ok i’ll explain everything about what its good and what’s the bad. You’d be smart enough to see that ;). I actually like talking with a fanboy with another fanboy beacuse it’s soo fun. 😀 Much partners are staying exactly with the F-35 program. I think people do praise it’s capabilites but what if the F-35 fails to meet the requirements? I’m no critic how am i such a critic? I don’t work at the DoD. Hey, i think you should belive me and the country’s 😉

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I wish the Mexican Airforce could get some SH’s 😉 Our Airforce would be strong, but Mexico doesn’t have any enemies in the other region.

They tail hook issue was blown way out of proportion. As was many of the other development issues with regards to the F-35. Really, compare to previous fighter programs it’s doing extremely well. As a matter of fact it was very common to test aircraft to crash during testing. Even the YF-22 crashed at one point…………Let’s also not forget that the JSF Program is developing not one aircraft but “THREE”.

Well the Tail Hook issue was about testing the carrier requirements. It was reported that tail hook distance couldn’t meet the standard carrier landing requirements as other aircraft did. Another example of the F-35 not significantly landing on carriers was the Hook shape and hook size which was reckoned small. that’s beacuse it’s tail hook distance was 7.8m (from the short hook). Regardless that many aircraft programs are successfully done and go to production to enter service, while the F-35 is going to a mess with the delays and program costs. F-35 program is going to $200m dollars of costs.

I like the X-32 more than the F-35 IMHO. When was there a F-35 crash?