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Ztex
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Posted: Feb 07, 2007 - 03:49 PM
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Jan,
Thanks for the video links.
They were pulling a little G in the afterburner run huh?
I am a little surprised they did the test in a turn...Guess they didi'nt want ot runaway from the chase...
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Posted: Feb 07, 2007 - 05:43 PM
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Ztex wrote:
Jan,
They were pulling a little G in the afterburner run huh?
I am a little surprised they did the test in a turn...Guess they did'nt want to runaway from the chase...
I speculate the turn was used to let the chase aircraft move close, while staying out of the jet blast. More than 40,000 pounds of thrust would probably knock a following aircraft about.
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Posted: Feb 07, 2007 - 09:55 PM
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| I would think they were bleeding airspeed so the '35 didn't pull away to quickly...Check |
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Posted: Feb 08, 2007 - 03:56 AM
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It looks to me like they were in a wind up turn and the camera was positioned to get a clear shot of the nozzle while the AB lit.
A successful windup turn will meet the following test criteria:
All instrumented parameters recorded properly.
Speed did not change more than 5 knots during the smooth portion of the maneuver.
A smooth application of stick force which stays on one side of the friction band throughout the maneuver.
A smooth increase in g throughout the maneuver.
Here's a scan of a similar event - a long long time ago - |
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Posted: Feb 08, 2007 - 06:32 AM
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Posted: Feb 08, 2007 - 07:05 AM
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| I'd say it's an Olympus being tested on a Vulcan but it looks kinda small. |
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Posted: Feb 08, 2007 - 06:26 PM
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I don't know why they were in a turn during the test. I know it was practiced that way in all the sim tests of the run cards.
There won't be any more flights for maybe 2-3 weeks, the jet is down while some things are checked/tested. |
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Posted: Feb 09, 2007 - 02:02 AM
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dwightlooi wrote:
What's that???
Its an RB199 (Tornado engine) being flown in a half fuselage under the Avro Vulcan FTB. At the sharp end it had a 27mm Mauser canon used for gun gas ingestion.
The largest five engined fighter in the world, it got some strange comments when cleared hot onto the ranges. |
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Posted: Feb 13, 2007 - 09:44 PM
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The F-35 has made a total of seven flights now. See: <a href="news_article2182.html">F-35 Lightning II logs flight progress</a>
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Posted: Feb 17, 2007 - 07:47 PM
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Is there any chance that it will fly again this weekend.
I would actually be able to hang out for a while at the airfield (well, the Wal-Mart parking lot really) this time. |
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Posted: Feb 17, 2007 - 08:01 PM
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| Sorry, no chance. Next flight is at least a couple of weeks away. |
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Posted: Feb 18, 2007 - 02:18 PM
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Posted: Feb 18, 2007 - 09:04 PM
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Hi Sferrin, thank you for the link! I definitely added some of those photos to the <a href="gallery_item15128.html">F-35 photo gallery</a>.
Here's some examples:
 F-35 Lightning II third flight - January 10th 2007
 F-35 Lightning II fourth flight - January 23th, 2007
 F-35 Lightning II fourth flight - January 23th, 2007 |
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Posted: Mar 12, 2007 - 07:06 PM
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Flight Global ran an article on the resumption of Lightning II flight test.
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First F-35 resumes flight tests
Flight International 13/03/07
Lockheed Martin's first F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) returned to flight on 5 March after a software update to incorporate performance data from its first seven flights. Aircraft AA-1 is expected to fly twice weekly as the company continues to expand the flight envelope.
The second JSF - the first short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) F-35B and the first with weight-optimised airframe - is now scheduled to fly in May-June 2008. Final assembly of the aircraft, BF-1, is already under way at Lockheed's Fort Worth, Texas plant.
"We mated the centre fuselage and forward fuselage in January, and the aft fuselage will ship from BAE Systems in early April," says F-35 programme general manager Dan Crowley. "We will complete the wing in June." Roll-out is planned for year-end, and captive hover tests for the second quarter of 2008, he says.
Design release for the STOVL F-35B is 98% complete, 70% for the conventional take-off and landing F-35A and 15% for the F-35C carrier variant (CV). The final critical design review, for the CV, is planned for June, having been delayed from November 2006 and the first F-35C, aircraft F-1, is now planned to fly in mid-2009.
Source: <a href="http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2007/03/13/212523/first-f-35-resumes-flight-tests.html" rel="nofolow">flightglobal.com</a>
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