I know that this is "only" AA-1, but she's still a beaut. I can only hope that we can get her for our navy with no (major) strings attached

eaglecrewF15, where did you get the original pictures for those 2 pictures? I want to find some hi-res pictures of it.

Does anyone have any good pictures of the F-35's cockpit?

Thanx

Here is some more photos but no cockpit
http://www.flightglobal.com/Articles/2006/07/06/Navigat...ead+of+official.html
is it rely gunna cauled the Lightning II ?

It looks small. (Well, smaller than the F-22 and F-14) What are it's real dementions?

They called the F-22 the Lightning II at one point as well. it's probobly just temporary on the JSF as well.

This is probably the closest you're going to get...

http://www.jsf.mil/f35/f35_technology.htm

WOW! Its a good ten feet shorter than the F-22. thats surprising. (62.8 feet long for the raptor vs. 50.5 on the JSF)

Here is a link to some stats on the F-22 for comparison.
http://www.f22fighter.com/Specs.htm

why a suprise its suppost to be smaller and cheaper it has only one engine so would be very under powered if it was of the same size

That is true, i also supose that it makes it more menoverable.

Some more pictures of AA-1 fresh from the paintbarn.

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Originally posted by Scott281992:
They called the F-22 the Lightning II at one point as well. it's probobly just temporary on the JSF as well.

The F-22 was never officially named "Lightning II", unlike the F-35 which had an official naming ceremony. Thusly the name will remain as is.

Looks like Martin Baker nicked the headrest design from the K-36D 3.5L.
Those canopy breakers look a lot like those on the yak-130 seats as well. Let's hope for the F-35 pilots they managed to copy the K-36 performance too.

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Originally posted by Scott281992:
That is true, i also supose that it makes it more menoverable.

No it does not. People assume wrongly fighter size is directly related with manueverablity wich is one of the biggest mistakes you can ever make just by looking at them.

I have footage on F-15's confortably beating up F-5 tigers in knife fights and chasing after F-16's.

The F-22 will probably still top the F-35 on manueverability. Its is packed with more power, larger sustainable surfaces compared to the body and TVC. Its thrust to weight is also better, even though that will equaly crush your body on either fighter you would ever choose to fly in.

Those pics look like they were taken out of the Ft.Worth plant.

They are assembled in Ft. Worth in their mile long facility along with the F-16's. I got to visit the plant a year and a half ago or so and saw them building AA-1. It was pretty freakin awesome. They way they build it is pretty amazing. I won't (and don't think I can) go into detail As for the cockpit, the picture of the simulator on that one website is the most you're going to see of it, at least for a while. It's pretty damn revolutionary, and the helmet mounted display has some neat tricks up its sleeve. I hope to be in the 35's cockpit in a few years

Yeah I tried to get a job fabricating parts for the JSF program in the Ft Worth plant. I had "inside" connections, but too bad she didnt have anything to do with hiring noobs like me. They were lookin for anyone with any amount of experience, they just picked the cream of the crop with that aircraft. I was just a lowly engineering mechanic.

It looks okay but I'd still rather have the Tomcat21 for the navy. To me the Tomcat 1 just looks a helluva lot better.


Oh well the DoD strikes again.

KW

Heh...Tomcat's look better to radar operators too.

IKing, that is true ut I'd rather have a Tomcat 21 with a uber late flight AiM-54X Phoenix than an Lightning II (?) with the mad dog in a meat locker Aim-120 AMRAAM. although the AMRAAM is a pretty damn good missile. (eons ahead of the Sparrow).



Knightewolfe