Future fighter (F-35 Update)

Flight International ^ | 27 June 3006 | Graham Warwick

[Yo-Yo]

The Monty Python aircraft program: "I'm not dead yet."

[CT-Freeper]

I'm kinda partial to Pratt & Whitney's F135 engine.

Success with that engine (and many others P&W makes, both commercial and military) is what helps me pay the bills!

[MAD-AS-HELL]

As long as the planes can hunt down and blow up terrorists or any enemy of the United States of America, I am all for it!

[lepton]

This and other changes to increase fuel capacity and reduce drag pushed the F-35C’s radius of action close to 1,300km (700nm) – “100nm more than the requirement”, he says.

That's a pretty huge difference.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Odd that he uses "40 lb" (ANSI units) when talking about structural weight, but "35 kg" (metric weights) when discussing equipment changes.

If that terminology carries into the design, methinks that's a formula for another NASA-type Mars-landing calculation disaster.

[bkepley]

100 nanometers?

[lepton]

heh. Yeah, abbreviations should be unique.

[Zeppelin]

hahaha i read that as "nanometers" too. i was like "damn accurate measurements!"

[driftdiver]

hopefully nm is referring to nautical miles. A range of 700 nanaometers probably won't very useful.

[orionblamblam]

The maximum airspeed indicator is labelled in units of parsecs per picosecond.

[jrp]

Northrop-Grumman BUMP

[Last Dakotan]

The biggest issue is clearing the helmet for ejection at 600kt while staying within the neck-load limits of the smallest pilots, he says, adding: “We are developing this for the broadest pilot population ever.”

My read is that it is costing a lot more to design a politically correct, inclusive a/c for female pilots.

[patton]

y'know, I believe that you are correct. When I was a young lad in Engineering school, the professors would regularly grouse about how much ANSI costs the US yearly.

I think that they were right, too.

[SlowBoat407]

A range of 700 nanaometers probably won't very useful.

Unless they're using fiber optics for the controls.

[operation clinton cleanup]

hopefully nm is referring to nautical miles. A range of 700 nanaometers probably won't very useful.

But think of all the fuel it would save!

[Eagles Talon IV]

Anyone tell me the major differences between this and the F22?

[Lazamataz]

100 nanometers?

Don't laugh. F-22 distsnces are measured in Picometers.

[Moral Hazard]

"100 nanometers?"

I think it's actually 100 nautical miles. You were close though. You were only off by a factor of 1,852,000,000,000.

[Yo-Yo]

F-22: Twin engine Air Dominance Fighter.
F-35: Single engine strike fighter.

The F-22 is to replace the F-15 in the Air Superiority role, while the F-35 is to replace the F-16, A-6, and AV-8B in the multirole strike figher role.

[Yo-Yo]

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