Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning Flies Supersonic (with full load of weapons)

WSJ Marketwatch ^ | 11/14/08

[wastedyears]

I would imagine “Joint” to be multi-role. Air-to-air, air-to-ground, and air-to-ship capabilities probably.

[JrsyJack]

Actually the FA-18 is pretty quiet, almost silent, as it approaches but is just deafening as it passes. Those twin GE F414 afterburners rattle the teeth out of your head.

[wastedyears]

And a ping

[tang-soo]

The speed of sound is a function of your altitude. Northern Texas is quite a ways above sea level.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

I'm still not totally confident about voice activated contols. Imagine if the pilot says the s word. Would the plane jettison all weapons? If the pilot said the word “ahole” would the missiles target the nearest democrat?

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

It means the plane can spot and destroy someone smoking a doober on the ground or in the air from a great distance.

[penelopesire]

I think that is what I noticed sound wise. The 35’s were almost out of sight before I heard the roar and the rattle in my teeth...lol. They were long gone!! I was very near the take off zone and it was impressive to say the least.

[JrsyJack]

Sounds awesome, can’t wait till they start showing up in demo flights and airshows. My guess is the low noise has something to do with the stealth capability.

[UglyinLA]

Lazamataz wrote:
Very good news indeed but who does the word “Joint” include please?

I think it means that the F35 is really DOPE.

[stevie_d_64]

Look at meeeeeeee, I am a bug!!! hehhehheeeeeeheheeeeheheeeeee

[David1]

Same difference between the F-15 and F-16.

[taildragger]

Notice the P & W Eagle Sticker....

No freakin' Light-Bulb-Meat-Ball on this Bad Boy :-) .....

(For those of you in Rio Linda, that is a GE reference....)

[Victor]

I think the F-22 is a prettier bird...

[monkeycard]

Thanks very much for the information.

[usmcobra]

[Tailback]

After Obama becomes president...

[mvpel]

Actually the FA-18 is pretty quiet, almost silent, as it approaches but is just deafening as it passes. Those twin GE F414 afterburners rattle the teeth out of your head.

I was sitting in a little hole-in-the-wall Mongolian barbecue in San Francisco during Fleet Week, and an F-18 must have made a run down the street to the bay.

The whole building shook, and we weren't even under attack. I was delighted and proud to be a citizen of a country that could impose that kind of terrifying might upon its enemies.

[Robert A Cook PE]

It’s competitor (Boeing ugly model built for the same spec’s) “might” have worked, but it just didn’t “look” right.

Sort of the difference between the old P-6 and the Japanese Zero. The

[Robert A Cook PE]

8<)

Nowdays, America's most serious enemies were in the buildings around you in San Francisco.

[neverdem]

Thanks for the ping.