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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #250 on: January 27, 2014, 09:31:34 AM »
And one for the "Rivet Counters" ;)


Is there a single door covering the rear exhaust or is that the port side of a split door?

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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #251 on: January 27, 2014, 10:27:30 AM »
Split door; they've found that single doors, like that on the nose gear of AA-1 expose a bit too much surface to the wind.

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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #252 on: February 17, 2014, 02:19:34 AM »














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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #253 on: February 22, 2014, 05:05:33 AM »
Something I've found on the internet


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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #254 on: February 22, 2014, 02:26:34 PM »
Something I've found on the internet



Looks nice, but wouldn't work in real life, the rear seat is too far aft, behind the break between the forward and center sections.  If they did a two-seater, the whole nose would be extended forward with the back seat where the front seat on the single-seater is in relation to, for reference, the inlets.

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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #255 on: February 22, 2014, 07:05:23 PM »
Rear seat occupies the space reserved for the lift fan, perhaps?

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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #256 on: February 22, 2014, 10:33:37 PM »
Looks nice, but wouldn't work in real life, the rear seat is too far aft, behind the break between the forward and center sections.  If they did a two-seater, the whole nose would be extended forward with the back seat where the front seat on the single-seater is in relation to, for reference, the inlets.

That eliminates that idea then ---   ;D  back to Plan B Evan   ;)

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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #257 on: February 23, 2014, 02:00:19 AM »
Rear seat occupies the space reserved for the lift fan, perhaps?
It might, but that's fuel tankage in the other variants and, really, that's a major bulkhead between the LM-Aero-Ft. Worth forward section and the Northrop-Grumman center section.

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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #258 on: February 23, 2014, 09:19:53 AM »
Rear seat occupies the space reserved for the lift fan, perhaps?
It might, but that's fuel tankage in the other variants and, really, that's a major bulkhead between the LM-Aero-Ft. Worth forward section and the Northrop-Grumman center section.

Yeah, I know there is a fuel tank there.   If it is a major structural bulkhead then it makes sense to put it in front.  Designing a completely new nose section makes considerably more sense than trying to stuff the cockpits either side.

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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #259 on: March 06, 2014, 02:38:48 AM »
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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #260 on: March 06, 2014, 02:46:19 AM »
I remember reading somewhere that the B model was seen to be particularly suited for use in the future for special models due to the volume and weight of the lift fan.  Remove that and fit a ctol f-135 and you have lots of space and weight for all sorts of goodies.  The was mention of a laser :icon_ninja:

Although an astromech Droid would be interesting too!
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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #261 on: March 06, 2014, 08:30:03 AM »
I remember reading somewhere that the B model was seen to be particularly suited for use in the future for special models due to the volume and weight of the lift fan.  Remove that and fit a ctol f-135 and you have lots of space and weight for all sorts of goodies.  The was mention of a laser :icon_ninja:

Although an astromech Droid would be interesting too!

Yeah, there has been talk of using the turbofan clutch to power a laser firing out of a turret top or bottom.

I'd still go with a C wing.   Better fuel and CTOL take off/landing handling.

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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #262 on: March 06, 2014, 12:49:17 PM »


It's been nigh unto six years since I've worked on the F-35 and I can still identify most of those panels on the forward section.

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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #263 on: March 11, 2014, 04:15:59 AM »
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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #264 on: March 11, 2014, 07:30:06 AM »
Is that the centreline gun pod?

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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #265 on: March 11, 2014, 11:57:16 AM »
Am I really seeing a purple canopy frame?
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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #266 on: March 11, 2014, 05:01:28 PM »
Is that the centreline gun pod?

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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #267 on: March 12, 2014, 11:38:03 AM »
Am I really seeing a purple canopy frame?
that's seen through the tinted canopy, so I doubt the actual color is purple.  I'd hazard a guess that it's some shade of gray.

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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #268 on: March 13, 2014, 02:45:55 AM »
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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #269 on: March 13, 2014, 06:37:40 AM »
Hmmm....judging from that photo, the best way to show off a F-35 model may be gender side up. 
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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #270 on: March 13, 2014, 07:35:08 AM »
What are the tubes out the back of the stores pylons for?

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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #271 on: March 13, 2014, 10:21:20 AM »
What are the tubes out the back of the stores pylons for?
Not sure, but the stores use pneumatic ejection rather than electro-explosive and they may be related to that.

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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #272 on: March 13, 2014, 08:59:05 PM »
What are the tubes out the back of the stores pylons for?
Not sure, but the stores use pneumatic ejection rather than electro-explosive and they may be related to that.

Flare dispenser perhaps, or chaff  ----

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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #273 on: March 14, 2014, 02:10:19 AM »
What are the tubes out the back of the stores pylons for?


Which tubes?




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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #274 on: March 14, 2014, 06:07:37 AM »
The little holes right at the end of the pylon Greg, only in these pics we can see they're not tubes ---  :-X

They actually look like the location hole for the rear support sprag on a fuel tank
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