Re:The F-35 may be unsalvageable
by mcv on Friday March 26, 2021 @11:24AM
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VTOL is certainly nice, but it's ridiculous to use it as a requirement of a variant of a plane of which most versions will not be using VTOL at all. Like stealth, it has a massive impact on the shape of the plane. It's ridiculous to burden non-VTOL planes with a design meant for VTOL. Just make a specialised VTOL fighter if that's what you need.
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Re:The F-35 may be unsalvageable
by wespiser_2018 on Friday March 26, 2021 @12:21PM
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This. You can see in the design of the f-35 the massive space in the middle of the body for the lift fan that partially obstructs the pilots view behind them.