Nobody denies it is an adv1nced aircraft. One only disussed the term most advanced… And no the F35C isnt the most advanced navy plane until it cand land on a deck…
It isn’t the most advanced Navy fighter of all time. Sure it has DAS and EODAS, but it’s entering carrier service around 2019 hardly. But as of now we have the most advanced Navy Fighter which is the Super Hornet. We’ll still have it until 2030-2040 approximately.
Arresting Hook System had significant issues with respect to how the CV variant’s AHS interoperates with aircraft carrier based MK -7 arresting gear. Roll-in arrestment testing at NAWC-AD, Lakehurst, resulted in no successful MK-7 engagements (0 successes in 8 attempts). Root cause analysis identified three key AHS design issues: (1) the aircraft geometry has a relatively short distance between the aircraft’s main landing gear tires and tailhook point (when lowered), (2) tailhook point design was overemphasized for cable shredding features versus ability to scoop low positioned cables, and (3) tailhook hold-down damper performance is ineffective to support damping of small bounces relative to runway/deck surface profiles. the F-35 couldn’t land on carriers beacuse the geometry tail hook distance was 7.8.
But red was the NGC proposed hook and the Base line was blue. 1.4375 MK7 was the cable. The baseline was .74m and the cable was .19m. But i think they fixed the geomatry cable now.
The distance between the main landing gear and the tailhook on the F-35C is the shortest of any naval aviation carrier airplane that we’ve had. Because we have to hide the hook — because if you had a hook exposed you wouldn’t be as stealthy airplane, that distance is tighter than any other. So it means when you roll over the wire when you land on the deck, the wire goes flush to the deck, and then you have to pick that wire up as it’s generally on the deck. So what we’ve had to do is re-design the hook shank.
CF-3 performed a total of 18 successful roll-in arrestments MK-7 6 with risers and 4 with no risers and E-28 8 arrestments at Lakehurst from 80 to 100 knots ground speed. The F/A-18E/F’s geometry places the distance of its main landing gear to tailhook point at 18.2 feet a much longer distance than the F-35C.
Quick fact that this was from 2011
From one aussie bird to another with a hot rear end :highly_amused::highly_amused::highly_amused:
Geoff.:D
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