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Re:Status of F-35 – Senate Armed Services Committee Statemen... by coredog64 on Monday May 02, 2016 @05:12PM (#11615681)
F-117 commonality was due to the "Skunk Works" model. Lockheed didn't have the time to pursue a custom set of avionics. IIRC, Lockheed also used existing forgings for landing gear for a similar reason.
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Re:Status of F-35 – Senate Armed Services Committee Statemen... by hga on Monday May 02, 2016 @09:48PM (#11617246)
There's great coverage of all that in: http://www.amazon.com/Skunk-Works-Personal-Memoir-Lockheed/d...

In particularly, they patched together their prototype in a way which all hackers will appreciate.

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