Lockheed Martin F-35B in der Realität
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=Ki86x1WKPmE
This video is fresh (for the public). It was made just six weeks ago in the Atlantic, just off Newport News (Hampton Roads), Virginia .
These are the latest sea trials of the F-35B on the USS Wasp. They were very successful, with 74 VL's and STO's in a three week period. The media and the program critics had predicted that we would burn holes in the deck and wash sailors overboard. Neither of which happened. You will notice a sailor standing on the bow of the ship as the jet rotates. That was an intentional part of the sea trials.
The USS Wasp is an amphibious assault ship designed to embark a Marine Expeditionary Unit. It is capable of simultaneously supporting rotary and fixed wing STOVL aircraft and amphibious landing craft operations. For this test deployment the USS Wasp was outfitted with special instrumentation to support and measure the unique operating environment as the F-35B conducted short takeoffs and vertical landings.
No catapult...... No hook ............
The shape and scope of warfare – worldwide – just changed
Meine erste F-35B-Landung auf dem Flugzeugträger
Eigentlich wollte ich nach Zweisimmen in Berner Oberland meinen virtuellen F-35B auch noch auf einem Flugzeugträger landen. Ich war schon unterwegs zwischen San Diego und San Francisco. Da landete ganz unerwartet die Youtube-Botschaft (siehe oben) auf meinem E-Mail-Konto. Schliesslich fand ich meinen Flugzeugträger 13.5 NM westnordwestlich vom Airport San Francisco Intl KSFO (VOR 115.80). Hier die Bilder dieser Schlussphase.
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