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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #225 on: November 15, 2013, 07:33:18 AM »
has anybody flown a 6 ship formation before apart from the red arrows?

Yes, quite a few in fact, and I think the Thunderbirds do for one. Others would be the Frecce Tricolore and the Patrouille de France as well.

it was a joke

Ah right. Perhaps a smiley afterward may have clarified that?
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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #226 on: November 15, 2013, 04:39:35 PM »
has anybody flown a 6 ship formation before apart from the red arrows?

Yes, quite a few in fact, and I think the Thunderbirds do for one. Others would be the Frecce Tricolore and the Patrouille de France as well.

it was a joke

Ah right. Perhaps a smiley afterward may have clarified that?

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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #227 on: November 16, 2013, 02:20:50 AM »
Chill guys ...and have a laugh:

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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #228 on: November 16, 2013, 04:59:26 PM »
i actually seen that F-35 jr. in real life.
its really tiny, perhaps no bigger then a compact car  ;D
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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #229 on: November 16, 2013, 05:08:22 PM »
Be a blast as flyable kit build !

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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #230 on: December 12, 2013, 05:39:45 AM »
Real World Whatif-ing in action… ;)

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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #231 on: January 27, 2014, 02:17:15 AM »
Would this scheme be something close to what the F-35 will get ?


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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #232 on: January 27, 2014, 02:49:29 AM »
Possibly, though I think they will look much more like these:

RAF F-35B:



RNLAF F-35A:

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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #233 on: January 27, 2014, 03:08:32 AM »
Hmm! I thought that all the panel edges wouldn't be like that on an in-service aircraft.

Another question, do the tailplanes cant upwards a bit ?

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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #234 on: January 27, 2014, 03:31:31 AM »
Hmm! I thought that all the panel edges wouldn't be like that on an in-service aircraft.

I may be wrong, but I suspect they will be.  It isn't really an issue though since if one is close enough to see them, your close enough to see the aircraft... ;)

Another question, do the tailplanes cant upwards a bit ?

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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #235 on: January 27, 2014, 03:38:33 AM »

Another question, do the tailplanes cant upwards a bit ?

I believe you are right.

I had wondered, I had partly assembled the Fujimi F-35B kit I just got and found that the kit tailplanes canted upwards.  It didn't look right and my photos of the 'B' I saw in Yuma don't really show it too well, the elevators were turned slightly downwards so you couldn't see the dihedral

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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #236 on: January 27, 2014, 03:48:28 AM »
If you look closely in the attached pics you can just see the slight upward cant.

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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #237 on: January 27, 2014, 03:56:57 AM »
That head-on photo is interesting Greg, have the insides of the intakes been censored ?  Reason I ask is that on the kit, the intakes are blanked off a few mm's inside the duct which sort of looks like that --
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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #238 on: January 27, 2014, 04:06:00 AM »
That head-on photo is interesting Greg, have the insides of the intakes been censored ?  Reason I ask is that on the kit, the intakes are blanked off a few mm's inside the duct which sort of looks like that --


Can't talk about the kit, but I don't believe typhoons is censored.  Here is another:



Do remember that they have some pretty severe internal bending though.
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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #239 on: January 27, 2014, 04:09:28 AM »
And another
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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #240 on: January 27, 2014, 04:11:47 AM »
Awesome pics   :)  It looks like my plan to build my kits OOB has just gone out the window, I need to make some intake ducts for them    ;D

These photos seem to emphasize a comment I have made on another thread that I don't see why the kit manufacturers have gone to the bother of producing parts to make the complete engine when there's nothing to see of the fan front --
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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #241 on: January 27, 2014, 04:15:22 AM »
Or cheat and put intake covers on them. ;)

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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #242 on: January 27, 2014, 04:47:01 AM »
Just a nice image:

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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #243 on: January 27, 2014, 04:55:43 AM »
That is nice!  Plus, it wearing the Grim Reapers livery!!!!  Glad to see them back 8)

Just needs two more wearing these schemes for a family portrait  ;)

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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #244 on: January 27, 2014, 04:59:22 AM »
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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #245 on: January 27, 2014, 05:18:37 AM »
If you look at the F-35B, the intakes on all the variants curve around where the 'B's fan is.  I could see most kits blanking them off there to simplify production.  The real inlets are composite assemblies fabricated by Northrop-Grumman and build on some R&D work done during TSSAM with regard to replacing a metallic casting with a composite assembly.

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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #246 on: January 27, 2014, 05:37:05 AM »
And one for the "Rivet Counters" ;)


WHAT is that? The doors alongside the aft exhaust on a 'B'?
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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #247 on: January 27, 2014, 05:55:03 AM »
Can someone explain the patchwork exterior to me please?  The differing colors are due to differing materials correct?  Are those panels and lines not to be painted?  Are they painted with some fancy new RAM paint or something along those lines?

Are there plans to apply camouflage to these birds?  The USN Ghost Gray scheme and the USMC Harrier scheme would look rather nice on them and help break up the solid gray scheme they're currently wearing.
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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #248 on: January 27, 2014, 07:56:08 AM »

WHAT is that? The doors alongside the aft exhaust on a 'B'?

Yes
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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #249 on: January 27, 2014, 08:41:12 AM »
An old one by a couple of our members:

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