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spazsinbad
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 Posted: Jan 19, 2012 - 08:08 PM
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Lockheed develops F-35 JSF fuel dump system repair solution 19 January 2012
http://www.airforce-technology.com/news ... r-solution
"Lockheed Martin has developed a solution to repair the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) aircraft's fuel dump system in a move to eliminate a potential fire hazard, Lockheed's JSF programme manager Tom Burbage has revealed.
The problems were highlighted in a Joint Strike Fighter Concurrency Quick Look Review by the Pentagon's chief operational tester Michael Gilmore in November 2011, which claimed that the system's design poses a fire risk due to the wetting of external surfaces. Defense News has reported Burbage as saying that the present design pumps out fuel forcefully from a valve that is flush with the wing in order to keep the aircraft stealthy, which leads a portion of dumped fuel back into the aircraft....
...Burbage said: "We expect to have that configuration change back in the test airplane early this year."
In the F-35B version, developed specifically for the US Marine Corps (USMC), fuel runs very close to the roll-post ducts, a part of the short take-off and vertical landing (STVOL) system, causing ignition....
...The existing fleet is installed with a temporary solution and the permanent modification, to be integrated into all the production aircraft, will undergo testing in the second quarter of 2012," |
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arkadyrenko
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Posted: Jan 19, 2012 - 08:48 PM
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| Good news, hope it starts a trend of stories like this one. |
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neptune
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Posted: Jan 19, 2012 - 08:55 PM
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[quote="spazsinbad"][...In the F-35B version, developed specifically for the US Marine Corps (USMC), fuel runs very close to the roll-post ducts, a part of the short take-off and vertical landing (STVOL) system, causing ignition....
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That should have been exciting, watching a $100 million dollar "Bee" catch fire and burn.....or was this a computer simulation??  |
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