Stargazer2006 said:What is it you call the PWSC? A full-scale mockup?
Colonial-Marine said:In the revised form she didn't look too bad if you could get beyond the giant chin intake. Though I suppose old A-7 pilots would have no problem with that.
Interesting. They were probably using bleed air from the fan, maybe even hoping to use them to create a curtain of air to help prevent hot gas re-ingestion?flateric said:doors are for pitch nozzles
Sundog said:What are the open doors next to the nose gear for? Did they use those instead of a translating cowl for more flow at low speed on the redesigns? Is it where the RAT was located?
It fell out of the Ugly Tree and hit every branch on the way down, some twiceXB-70 Guy said:The X-32 must have been 'hit with an ugly stick.' -SP
Source: http://www.aerospaceweb.org/aircraft/fighter/jsf/pics02.shtmlEarly Boeing design study for a CALF demonstrator meeting conventional and STOVL requirements
Image courtesy JSF Program Office, 2010
Source: http://www.aerospaceweb.org/aircraft/fighter/jsf/pics06.shtmlEvolution of the Boeing design for JAST culminating in the X-32
Image courtesy JSF Program Office, 2010
fightingirish said:Wow, never seen before... B)
Stargazer2006 said:fightingirish said:Wow, never seen before... B)
It's elsewhere on this forum, and not something thought of very highly if I remember correctly...
A not-very-realistic design probably published by a so-called "science" magazine.
fightingirish said:Source: http://www.aerospaceweb.org/aircraft/fighter/jsf/pics06.shtmlEvolution of the Boeing design for JAST culminating in the X-32
Image courtesy JSF Program Office, 2010
Vulcan652 said:I must be one of the few people that actually quite likes the look of the X-32.
flateric said:it was pure artist's what-if from MRF article published Polish Lotnictwo magazine #23-23/1992
I like the x-32 as well. The lifting body shape, along with the thick yet highly swept wing. Was cool looking to me. The x-35 became the lightning II, the x-32 if produced should have been the Sabre II. To me the production version looked like the F-86 Sabre.Vulcan652 said:I must be one of the few people that actually quite likes the look of the X-32. Ugly? For sure! But there's something quite individual about it in my opinion. Here's a few walk-around pics taken a couple of years ago at Patuxent River. They don't do justice to how chunky it was up close, or the fact that it's suffered a bit out in the humidity. Still, a cool little museum and well worth a visit!
kcran567 said:The x-35 became the lightning II, the x-32 if produced should have been the Sabre II.
Stargazer2006 said:kcran567 said:The x-35 became the lightning II, the x-32 if produced should have been the Sabre II.
Is this a personal opinion, or actual info? And if so, do you have any source to circumstanciate it?
InvisibleDefender said:I knew a lot of the names which were contenders for the F-35. One of them was the Musketeer. As in the Three Musketeers since we have 3 versions.
Stargazer2006 said:This I can confirm, as I did find once a PowerPoint presentation once that had the name "Musketeer" associated to the F-35.