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spazsinbad
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 Posted: Aug 23, 2012 - 10:46 AM
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First RAAF JSF starts to come together Max Blenkin, August 23, 2012
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/b ... 6456895641
"The aircraft, named AU-1, exists only as a series of sub-assemblies now being manufactured at Lockheed Martin facilities around the United States.
The largest, a complex centre wing section, bears no resemblance to a finished aircraft.
Lockheed Martin's JSF program head Tom Burbage said it was being made in Lockheed Martin's facility in Marietta, Georgia.
"Then it will come to Fort Worth and be made into a full wing. The inlets for the centre body are starting right about now," he told journalists at a media briefing.
"Then we will start assembling the centre body. The wing starts first, and then the centre starts and the aft starts and then they all come into Fort Worth."
That's the company's major production facility, now assembling its 100th JSF....
...Australia is considering acquiring up to 100 JSF aircraft to be the nation's principal combat aircraft out to mid-century.
But so far the government is firmly committed to just two, with a decision on the next tranche of 12 deferred for about two years....
...JSF's conventional takeoff and landing (CTOL) variant, which Australia is acquiring, is well ahead of its planned test schedule and is now almost 50 per cent of the way through its flight testing." |
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neptune
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Posted: Aug 23, 2012 - 06:14 PM
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[quote="spazsinbad.... is well ahead of its planned test schedule and is now almost 50 per cent of the way through its flight testing.[/b]"[/quote]
It's going to be interesting to hear the different perspectives when the allied pilots start flying the -35 in addition to the 2 current RAF S.L.s. 
Gee, will it not be a sad day for "chicken little" when they have to start moving the test schedule forward to keep up with the test flights!  |
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Conan
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Posted: Aug 23, 2012 - 06:38 PM
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Yeah, but In true ABJ style, any positive news from anyone at all, will be dismissed as a Lockheed Martin stooge / shrill / whatever.
Any real pilot that dares to comment positively will be immediately dismissed by the Internet as angling for a Lockheed Martin job...
No-one could "honestly" rate the F-35 as a good aircraft could they? |
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