From my point of view this video shows that F-35 needs much higher AoA to stay in the formation with F-16 at that particular (low) speed, nothing more nothing less. Negative effect [blablabla]
What I find ironically is that the pilots are mostly talking about F-35 high AoA maneuverability and the benefits it provides during WVR combat compared to F-16, but at the same time most of the western pilots are bashing russian planes with much superior high AoA capabilities.
Frankly Peregrinefalcon, I don’t even know if you had taken the time to read the discussion from its beginning and if I should loose time replying.
Just to be brief:
– The official max AoA of the F16 is well known to be around 28 deg
– The official max AoA of the F35 is well known to be around 50 deg
What the ******* is all this digression of your? Didn’t you even bother to watch the last 10 sec of the video?
As said before there are two ways to see the superior F35 AoA while flying in formation:
– her cruise speed is superior (what we know from the inception of the prog)
– her lift management is different.
A well designed cruise missile for example will use bodylift for low speed and wing lift for high speed (the fuselage attitude being then around the Cl0).
The F35 could well use the same principle. This would explain the more severe attitude at low speed and the positive pitch of the elevator (to be explained perhaps one day).
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