At last, we did it...

[Derk]

First flight of a KLu F35 by a Dutch pilot....

 

http://www.dvidshub.net/video/315200/f-35#.UrLP4dLuK-k

Edited December 19, 2013 by Derk

[+Spillone104]

J35? Congratulations for choosing the Draken in place of that piece of plastic... Oh, damn! That 35...

[+ravenclaw_007]

congratulation !!!

 

by looking at this F-35 i must say i dont like it , compare to other fighters the whole thing looks clumsy and ugly , I hope that this bird does his job better than he looks , i´m glad that we dont have it

[Nesher]

congrats!

[+Gepard]

Marcel Dassault said long ago: "Only a nice plane is a good plane."

If i look on the F-35, then i hope for Holland, that Dassault was wrong.

[Peugeot205]

We will see what is going to happen with the F-35, if a country like France with  budget , experience and resources has problems with a  "Less sophisticated fighter" (The Rafale)  , the F-35 may become a nightmare in countries such as The netherlands , Italy or Norway.... However congrats anyway.

[MigBuster]

Marcel Dassault said long ago: "Only a nice plane is a good plane."

If i look on the F-35, then i hope for Holland, that Dassault was wrong.

 

Luckily for the rest of us there are the sayings "Never judge a book by its cover" and "beauty is in the eye of the beholder".

[JediMaster]

I guess Dassault never looked at the Mirage F1 or Super Etendard then. Not nice looking at all.

[Derk]

J35? Congratulations for choosing the Draken in place of that piece of plastic... Oh, damn! That 35...

Hi, hi, edited, started to write JSF and then changed my mind...   

[+ravenclaw_007]

I guess Dassault never looked at the Mirage F1 or Super Etendard then. Not nice looking at all.

 

excuse me , compare to the F-35 the Mirage F-1 looks like a super sports car , the F-4 phantom was called a "Flying Brick" or "Double Ugly" but looks a tausend times better than that F-35

 

but i guess tastes differ

[JediMaster]

I always thought the F-35 looks like a smaller single F-22.

 

It looks a LOT better than the losing X-32! We could've been stuck with THAT. It looked like it had lockjaw and need a serious diet.

[Lexx_Luthor]

F-35 meh

 

But...a contrarian view would say that looks can conceal, especially when everybody hates and votes on a look. Probably the most silly and awkward looking planform is reverse taper. Republic's XF-91 had both a faster supersonic wing *and* a slower flying wing than any other fighter at the time. I wonder about roll rate though. Imagine what aviation would be like if reverse taper took hold in the 50s. Worse, what would a reverse delta planform look like, a mach2 butterfly?

[MigBuster]

 

Fantastic - another way to solve adverse Yaw!

 

 

 

Here's another - Horten in WWII Germany solved both adverse Yaw and tailess flight (without using a computer)

 

 

[+CrazyhorseB34]

F-35=Game Changer. You will see.