Cg USMC F-35-B

www.lockheedmartin.com/data/assets/aeronautics/gallery/f35/video/F-35BFirstFlightMusicVideo.wmv

This is the actual First Flight Video Link

The United States and eight international participants are involved in the F-35’s funding, development, production and sustainment. Three versions of the F-35 will be produced:

F-35A CTOL variant for conventional runways
STOVL F-35B for operating off small ships and near front-line combat zones
And the F‑35C carrier variant (CV) for catapult launches and arrested recoveries aboard the U.S. Navy’s large aircraft carriers.

FORT WORTH, Texas, June 11th, 2008 --

The first Lockheed Martin F-35B short takeoff/vertical landing stealth fighter takes off from Lockheed Aeronautics in Fort Worth, Texas, on its inaugural flight Wednesday, June 11.

The jet, which will be used by the U.S. Marine Corps, the United Kingdom and Italy, is the first aircraft to combine stealth with supersonic speed and short takeoff/vertical landing capability.

With test pilot Graham Tomlinson at the controls, the short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] F-35B Lightning II streaked into blue Texas skies Wednesday, marking the first flight of an aircraft that will provide a combination of capabilities never before available: stealth, supersonic speed and STOVL basing flexibility. Tomlinson, a former Royal Air Force Harrier pilot now employed by BAE Systems.

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The Royal Navy wants this plane for their Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers, Joint origanally meant the joint U.S. Military services as the air force was replacing the F-16, the Navy replacing the F/A-18A, & the Marines replacing the Harrier 2. the airfoce version is fairly stealthy, the Navy version will be very stealthy, & the marine corps version won't be very stealthy at all. the level of stealthyness is decided by the service using it.

This jet called JSF F-35 Program. US, UK, Italy, Nederland, Canada, Turkey, Australia, Norway and Denmark. Israel and Singapore join also.

The thing is, US need their money for produktion but they dont want to give them ToT, so the member will be the only costumer that will always dependant to US for technology and spare part. Thats why Australia and UK became dissappointed, but latest news that US will give to Israel (only prticipant in this project) and neglect UK as the the level 1 partner with 10% contribution

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Italy
Netherland
Turkey
Canada
Australia
Denmark
Norway

You may talking about the english Harries,they are old,THIS IS USA NEW TECH

Harriers. I couldn't think of that name. Those are really cool. This one looks so neat with all those fins that come out of it when it's changing directions.

But it has taken the us all these years to catch up with the uk in vertical lift aircraft !

The USA has been using these for a very long time!
Where did you get the idea that we were trying to CATCH UP?
Try to keep up to date with the rest of the world.

the US models used by the marine corps are built under licence in the US.
Hawker Siddley/Rolls Royce had all the patents for the pegasus engine and aircraft design. Admittedly the US avionics are ten times better than the UK versions but it is British. The original US test pilots saw the aircraft at Farnborough air show and were offered 40hrs training, they thought they would only be allowed about 8hrs.

Did you not realise that the Harrier 2 was an American redesign of the original? the U.S. long since "Caught up" with the U.K. the original idea was from a frenchman who submitted it to the U.S. military, who passed it on to Hawker aircraft for a Nato attack aircraft requirement. further more the U.S. was in the forefront of research on V/STOL aircraft. as was west germany, the soviet union, & France.