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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #75 on: February 24, 2012, 03:45:55 PM »
More external weapons trials, this time with the Bravo (note the external gun pod):


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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #76 on: February 24, 2012, 04:14:50 PM »
Nice to see hangy things breaking up the outline.  The pod is certainly an odd looking beast.  I'm quite surprised as to how big the pylons are in comparison to the wings.

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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #77 on: February 24, 2012, 10:00:42 PM »
That pic of the F-35 with AIM-9X and black tails with red lightning bolt - damn, from some angles it's a really sexy beast!  :-*

Wow, just noticed how much an outward slant there is to the AIM-9 pylon and launcher!  :icon_surprised:
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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #78 on: February 25, 2012, 03:54:24 AM »
Anyone with a set of conformal fuel tanks for the F-16?  How about performing a check-fit to see what they would look like attached to the F-35.
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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #79 on: March 03, 2012, 03:25:23 AM »
View showing some of the details of the F-35B lift system:



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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #80 on: March 04, 2012, 01:23:56 PM »
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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #81 on: March 04, 2012, 01:25:51 PM »
You have to admit, it does look GOOD in those colors!


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Re: What gets ordered when (if) F-35 cancelled
« Reply #82 on: March 04, 2012, 05:57:51 PM »

Tejas was like, you know, MiG-21/F-5 of the 21st Century (it has none of the Fishbed's aesthetic shortcomings.....


I don't have any real opinions on the F-35, but you did not say that about the MiG-21, did you?

I'll grant you that she lost a bit in the looks department in later versions, but you can't say she didn't have looks early on:

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As for the Tejas, I always saw it as a bit of an unispired bash of F-16XL and Legacy Hornet features.
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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
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Re: What gets ordered when (if) F-35 cancelled
« Reply #84 on: March 05, 2012, 12:45:11 AM »
I don't have any real opinions on the F-35, but you did not say that about the MiG-21, did you?

I'll grant you that she lost a bit in the looks department in later versions, but you can't say she didn't have looks early on......

As for the Tejas, I always saw it as a bit of an unispired bash of F-16XL and Legacy Hornet features.

We're gonna have to agree to disagree here since to me only the tailless delta wing planform (used by the Analog-144) or significant relocation of air intake (used by Ye-8, some proposed model of J-7, and forerunners of FC-1) fixed the look.  8)
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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #85 on: March 05, 2012, 12:53:01 AM »
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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #86 on: March 05, 2012, 02:21:48 AM »
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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #88 on: March 14, 2012, 09:25:40 AM »
The F-35: The most maligned and disliked plane since, well, I can't remember when!

Despite all the issues surrounding it, I actually like the looks of it.

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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #89 on: March 14, 2012, 09:35:19 AM »
I'm still very much a fan of the type. When the kits of production B models finally hit shelves, I'll be there.
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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #90 on: March 14, 2012, 09:24:32 PM »
I've said before that I think it's a really neat looking plane, just waiting for some good representatives of it to appear in 1/72 scale, even though I do have a couple of the Italeri rendition of it (which have a lot of work to correct it)

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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #92 on: March 24, 2012, 04:23:00 AM »
Yes, the JSM is one of the few weapons which is purpose designed with the F-35 in mind.  I have seen some mockups - will try and find the photos.  By all accounts it looks very promising and I hope to see it do well.
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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #93 on: March 24, 2012, 04:23:57 AM »
just some cool photos:



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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #94 on: March 24, 2012, 09:56:21 AM »
First pic in the last set looks pretty much like CGI to me, not a real photo...  ???

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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #95 on: April 01, 2012, 12:28:18 PM »
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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #96 on: April 14, 2012, 11:33:34 AM »
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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #97 on: April 15, 2012, 03:09:32 AM »
Well that's different.
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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #98 on: April 15, 2012, 03:10:41 AM »
First pic in the last set looks pretty much like CGI to me, not a real photo...  ???

Maybe...maybe not.  Either way, I love the dark grey look.
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Re: F-35 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #99 on: April 15, 2012, 06:21:36 AM »


Clearly the long-range ferry configuration.  With a spot of work, you could also add dual-mode (both flying boom and probe and drogue) inflight refueling.  The F-35A has the 'real estate" for the probe kept clear to keep a common systems configuration across all the variants.