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2006-07-07 Science & Technology

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Posted by Anonymoose 2006-07-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Pretty bird...

Posted by badanov 2006-07-07 00:21|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2006-07-07 00:21|| Front Page Top

#2 I want one.

Posted by Mike 2006-07-07 07:26|| 2006-07-07 07:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Needs some Flying Tiger Teeth....

Anyone good enough with Photo Shop?

Posted by TomAnon 2006-07-07 10:18|| 2006-07-07 10:18|| Front Page Top

#4 ...My understanding is that the first line unit to get the -35 will be the 20th FW across the road from me at Shaw AFB SC. Got an up-close and personal with a full-scale mockup and some LockMart guys some time back, IF this beast works as advertised it's going to be a winner.

It may also be the last manned combat aircraft built for the USAF, but you didn't hear that from me.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-07-07 10:18|| 2006-07-07 10:18|| Front Page Top

#5 Did we jump from the F22 to the F35 ?
What happened to good ole numbers like F24 and F25 ? Are they so secret that we can't use those numbers ? Huh ?
What didn't you like about the F33 ?

Posted by wxjames 2006-07-07 10:26|| 2006-07-07 10:26|| Front Page Top

#6 And to think that there are people alive now who were born before man's first powered flight.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-07-07 10:36|| 2006-07-07 10:36|| Front Page Top

#7 Did we jump from the F22 to the F35 ?

A number gets assigned early in design phase. Lot's never get beyond concept, some make it to mockup, even fewer make it to the flying stage.

For example, the YF-23 lost to the F-22 in the final testing. Pity, it was a beautiful bird.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2006-07-07 12:48|| 2006-07-07 12:48|| Front Page Top

#8 wxjames -
Long time USAF urban legend has it that some of the 'missing numbers' in both the old Century Series and the new ones were assigned to Soviet/Chinese aircraft that were flown at Nellis AFB without the knowledge or approval of their original builders. A more solid piece of info is that more than a few 'paper airplanes' - company proposals that never get off a drawing board - have also been assigned F- or B- numbers, though this is not done anywhere near as much as it used to be. On the other hand, don't forget that the JSF project goes back to the mid-80s, so who knows what kind of numerical gyrations the nomenclature may have gone through.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-07-07 12:50|| 2006-07-07 12:50|| Front Page Top

#9 Steve -
That it was, sir. Northrop had it all set to be named F-23A Blackwidow II after their famed WWII nightfighter. If you take a look at some of the in-flight publicity shots, a red 'hourglass' marking is clearly visible on the -23's belly. Officially, Northrop swore it was a 'test marking'. Of course the same killjoys who rejected 'Lightning II' for the F-22 would have probably put paid to that. (I've got a Lockmart coffee mug with 'F-22 Lightning II' on it..drives people crazy. :)

Mike

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-07-07 12:53|| 2006-07-07 12:53|| Front Page Top

#10 Pretty is right. I like the pictures of some of the plant personnel escorting it - they all look like proud parents.

Posted by Xbalanke 2006-07-07 13:00|| 2006-07-07 13:00|| Front Page Top

#11 A pity it has the crescent of Islam on it.

Posted by Kratos 2006-07-07 13:25|| 2006-07-07 13:25|| Front Page Top

#12 Looking on that site, I found more pretty birds!
4 Female F15 Pilots...that's hot!

Posted by Jesing Ebbease3087 2006-07-07 13:34|| 2006-07-07 13:34|| Front Page Top

#13 From that site 7/7/06
USAF names Lockheed Martin's F-35 JSF the Lightning II

You voted for Black Mamba, but the US Air Force decided differently and so Lockheed Martin's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has now been christened.

No poisonous snakes, man-eating birds or scythe wielders; the F-35 has been given a name at once appropriate and predictable - Lightning II. Formally named at the roll-out of the first F-35 today in Fort Worth, Texas, the multinational JSF has been named after two legendary fighters, one American and one British.

Posted by Sherry 2006-07-07 13:58|| 2006-07-07 13:58|| Front Page Top

#14 "(WHY) jump from the F22 to the F35"

The history of the "F-35" began as an X-plane prototype; the X-35. That, and F-35 sounded much more advanced than a F-24, and thus more likely to get funded. Yes, it's a travesty to the traditional numbering system. But it's mild compared to the total cluster%^&* that today passes for warship numbering. It's all just gone to He11, numbering wise. Nice plane though.

Posted by Shuling Angurong7260 2006-07-07 17:00|| 2006-07-07 17:00|| Front Page Top

#15 BTW, you can see the prototype up close at the new National Air & Space Museum at Dulles. Very nice. Absolutly HUGE place, too. B-707, SR-71, Concord, the Shuttle Enterprise and much more all get swallowed up in a truly cavernous hanger display.

Posted by Shuling Angurong7260 2006-07-07 17:05|| 2006-07-07 17:05|| Front Page Top

#16 Cute, but the AF isn't excited about the JSF. F-22 is the shit.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-07-07 17:31|| 2006-07-07 17:31|| Front Page Top

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