F-35B sea trials ...

[SBA]

Per email from Cap't Mike in Singapore ...

This video is fresh (for the public). It was made just six weeks ago in the Atlantic, just off Newport News (Hampton Roads), Virginia .



These are the latest sea trials of the F-35B on the USS Wasp. They were very successful, with 74 VL ' s and STO ' s in a three week period. The media and the program critics had predicted that we would burn holes in the deck and wash sailors overboard. Neither of which happened. You will notice a sailor standing on the bow of the ship as the jet rotates. That was an intentional part of the sea trials.

The USS Wasp is an amphibious assault ship designed to embark a Marine Expeditionary Unit. It is capable of simultaneously supporting rotary and fixed wing STOVL aircraft and amphibious landing craft operations. For this test deployment the USS Wasp was outfitted with special instrumentation to support and measure the unique operating environment as the F-35B conducted short takeoffs and vertical landings.

No catapult...... No hook .............

The shape and scope of warfare – worldwide – just changed.

F-35B Video http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=Ki86x1WKPmE

[chew 'n' spit]

And that is just a little picture of what we have got, but a nice video

[Phillbo]

Per email from Cap't Mike in Singapore ...

This video is fresh (for the public). It was made just six weeks ago in the Atlantic, just off Newport News (Hampton Roads), Virginia .

ummm.. that footage much is older than that .... you really need to not trust BS artist that send you top secret emails..


cool stuff though, just not new released .



From oct '11 ....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puj5l...eature=related

[SBA]

ummm.. that footage much is older than that .... you really need to not trust BS artist that send you top secret emails..


cool stuff though, just not new released .



From oct '11 ....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puj5l...eature=related

"Uploaded by usnavy on Oct 3, 2011
F-35B test aircraft completes its first landing aboard USS Wasp."

[Phillbo]

It was made just six weeks ago in

Even I can do that math... Oct '11 is more than 6 weeks ago.



I saw it in Oct so it was not 'just released for the public' .... not top secret .

[SBA]

Even I can do that math... Oct '11 is more than 6 weeks ago.

I saw it in Oct so it was not 'just released for the public' .... not top secret .

Cap't Mike is ex-US Army Special Forces/ Vietnam ... and naturally not up on USN activities, except where there was a opportunity to swipe something from them.

[wacojoe]

Hasn't the F-35 acquisition program been cancelled with just a handful in inventory, none operational nor any ever likely to be? Not surprising since it couldn't even make Bruce Willis "Die Hard."