First F35 Exits Lockheed Martin Factory(First non-prototype F-35 produced)

Spacewar ^

[MARKUSPRIME]

ort Worth TX (SPX) Feb 20, 2006 The Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter team has completed assembly of the first F-35 aircraft and moved it out of the factory in preparation for an intensive period of ground testing. First flight of the F-35, a conventional takeoff and landing version, remains on schedule for this fall.

The first F-35 Joint Strike Fighter moves from the factory to a fueling facility at Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth, Texas, on Feb.19 achieving another major milestone toward first flight planned later this year. Workers completed assembly of the aircraft on Feb. 17.

[MARKUSPRIME]

Good news.

[lormand]

Is this the veritical take off version of the F22?

[CrawDaddyCA]

Anybody know what the slang name for this bird will be? We have the F-14 Tomcat, F-15 Eagle, the F-16 Falcon, F-22 Raptor...and the F-35 JSF. The name has to be cool, ya know?

[sammycook]

No. This is a complimentary aircraft that will be in three variants. One will be a STOVL (short take off, vertical landing)variant, but will not have too much in common with the F-22.

[Zavien Doombringer]

well, it is a bit more in difference... body shape and design, weapons deployment and range

[pgyanke]

F-35 Ragtime

[Pukin Dog]

Anybody know what the slang name for this bird will be?

"Toast"

[Cableguy]

Your picture looks like F-22, not F-35.

[MARKUSPRIME]

No its the F-35.

[CrawDaddyCA]

Not cool enough.

[Zavien Doombringer]

How about F-35 Instigator

[APRPEH]

the F-35 family

[MARKUSPRIME]

Here is the F-22. Totally differant aircraft.F-22 would dominate the F-35 in air to air combat.

[Lazamataz]

Anybody know what the slang name for this bird will be? We have the F-14 Tomcat, F-15 Eagle, the F-16 Falcon, F-22 Raptor...and the F-35 JSF. The name has to be cool, ya know?

The F-35 Lazamataz.

[chilepepper]

yup, you are right -- it looks like a F-22, but that is because the F-35, well, looks like a F-22!

you will however see that it somehow looks 'stubbier' than the real F-22, which is a bit more graceful meethinks...

[Zavien Doombringer]

Nope it's an F-35

F-22 below - Look at the body lines

[CrawDaddyCA]

Now that's a cool handle. I was thinking of the F-35 'Punisher' or F-35 'Vengence'

[APRPEH]

how 'bout

ISLAMO-CRUSHER

[Zavien Doombringer]

Well, I suppose the F-22 does have a different mission like Air superiority :)

[LilDarlin]

I'd like to see one of these stop an IED.

Till then, what are we going to use it for?

Most - if not all - of our enemies now know that the way to beat us militarily (found this out back in the 60s, but I guess we forgot) is to take the following steps:

1. Get a dim into the whitehouse

2. Get a majority of dims in congress

3. Attack the US Military with an "army" of scrubs and bums. When they die, so what.

4. Have the trained army "melt" into the civilian population.

5. Do enough damage to the US forces with IEDs and the like to keep the media selling their papers and gaining their rating points.

6. Then just sit back and relax and watch the US implode.

Simple