Pentagon: Trillion-Dollar Jet on Brink of Budgetary Disaster

Re:Pentagon: Trillion-Dollar Jet on Brink of Budgetary Disaster by dhughes on Thursday March 22, 2012 @12:08PM (#3740382)

Here is Canada our government is insisting they are going to buy some F-35 jets.

People have complained other than its complexity the single engine is bad if you are over the Arctic and the engine fails, most modern Canadian jets have dual engines.

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Re:Pentagon: Trillion-Dollar Jet on Brink of Budgetary Disaster by javert on Thursday March 22, 2012 @12:27PM (#3740507)

People have complained other than its complexity the single engine is bad if you are over the Arctic and the engine fails, most modern Canadian jets have dual engines.

I wonder if the F-35 has a particularly reliable engine.

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Re:Pentagon: Trillion-Dollar Jet on Brink of Budgetary Disaster by dhughes on Thursday March 22, 2012 @07:28PM (#3742599)

I'm not sure but if it's a vertical take-off and land (VTOL) it must be pretty durable.

Found this gem on Wikipedia under Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II

Canada had previous experience with a high-accident rate with the single-engine Lockheed CF-104 Starfighter with many accidents related to engine failures. Defence Minister Peter MacKay, when asked what would happen if the F-35’s single engine fails in the Far North, stated "It won’t"

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