[PilotDave]

F-35 is no F-22...

[bigheadfred]

At least it is supplying jobs.

[Yo-Yo]

From the Glass Half Full Dept:

Can a new structural crack suggest F-35 is healthier?

When an aluminium alloy bulkhead inside the Lockheed Martin F-35B cracked last year after just 1,600h of durability tests, the programme was caught by surprise. Lockheed's analysis had not predicted the 496 bulkhead would buckle before the end of the 16,000h-long durability exam.

A year later, the programme claims to have made some progress.

Unfortunately the airframe structure is still not immune from early cracking, but this time Lockheed was not caught by surprise.

Lockheed's analysis predicted root rib forgings in each wing for the F-35A and F-35B also would fail, and they actually survived slightly longer than expected, the programme office says. The root rib actually succumbed after about 2,800h of the 16,000h durability test. Lockheed had already designed a fix to install in the next lot of low-rate initial production (LRIP).

[GeronL]

The last F-22 was made today

[Farmer Dean]

This problem just made the F-35 about the most expensive per flight hour aircraft in the world.

[Farmer Dean]

This problem just made the F-35 about the most expensive per flight hour aircraft in the world.

[A.A. Cunningham]

The F-22 is no F-35 either. Two different airplanes with two different missions. Any idea of the number of development issues that cropped up; and continue to do so to this day with production models, during the EMD phase of the Raptor? Probably not.

[big'ol_freeper]

They need to cancel this program. There is no documented threat that this aircraft counters that is not already dealt with currently.

[stump56]

Stealing a quote from Joel Goodson: “Looks like the F/A-18E/F!”

[jbp1]

is this problem for all variants?

[NVDave]

And so the F-35 continues to flawlessly mimic the F-111 program.

We should cancel it now. Just drive a stake through it and be done, because we’re just throwing good money after bad.

[haole]

let’s see, the lockheed F-22 has been grounded for over a year now, and the AF is now suddenly figuring out the loackheed F-35 is going to haveproblems?
the lockheed C5 had huge wing problems, and, gee, lockheed had to bukld new iwngs for them, and guess who had to pay for them?
the F-35 design has so many major design flaws, only a blind govt procurement type would actually buy the thing. the wing spars, is only one piece. the huge cut out in the body for the lift fan, the fans transmission and gear box,etc, etc.