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Title: First UK F-35 delivery
Post by: Nickbat on 25 July 2012, 20:39:09

Pretty awesome photo, taken at the handover in Dallas/Ft Worth.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lockheedmartin/7604565622/in/set-72157630654429496 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/lockheedmartin/7604565622/in/set-72157630654429496)

 :y :y

Title: Re: First UK F-35 delivery
Post by: the alarming man on 25 July 2012, 22:03:22

all we need now is for them to withhold the software hey.......... :y

Title: Re: First UK F-35 delivery
Post by: Nickbat on 25 July 2012, 22:07:22

Quote from: the alarming man on 25 July 2012, 22:03:22

all we need now is for them to withhold the software hey.......... :y

I think we build quite a bit of the avionics, so they wouldn't try that!  ;) ;)

Title: Re: First UK F-35 delivery
Post by: paul.lovejoy on 25 July 2012, 22:17:47

have to say though its a pretty awsome looking plane :y

Title: Re: First UK F-35 delivery
Post by: the alarming man on 25 July 2012, 22:24:28

Quote from: Nickbat on 25 July 2012, 22:07:22

Quote from: the alarming man on 25 July 2012, 22:03:22

all we need now is for them to withhold the software hey.......... :y

I think we build quite a bit of the avionics, so they wouldn't try that!  ;) ;)

about time we built the whole bloody lot ... :y

Title: Re: First UK F-35 delivery
Post by: Baron Von Spongebob on 25 July 2012, 23:14:00

Can you get one in diesel for better fuel economy Nickbat.?  ::)

Title: Re: First UK F-35 delivery
Post by: aaronjb on 26 July 2012, 09:34:48

I think it's a beautiful looking piece of kit - although in the video I saw recently it looks very, very odd with it's forward intake open (which opened like an air brake on the model I saw, while earlier prototypes opened like bomb bay doors and looked a lot more aerodynamic)..

Still, 'bout time we had a new VSTOL aircraft.