Not Your Old-fashioned Aircraft Carrier Landing!

[Guest Michael Coates]

This video was made just 6 weeks ago in the Atlantic, just off Newport Virginia .

 

These are the latest sea trials of the F-35B on the USS Wasp. They were very successful, with 74 Vertical Landings' & Standard Take Offs in a 3 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.

 

No catapult... No hook... Its anew world out there!

 

The shape and scope of warfare worldwide just changed.

 

High Def and worth watching

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=Ki86x1WKPmE&feature=colike

 

 

[willedoo]

Nice video, Michael, thanks for posting.

 

The tests will be encouraging for the Marines Corps. Now all Lockheed has to do is fix the tail hook problem on the F-35C and the Navy will be accomodated as well.

 

Cheers, Willie.

 

 

[siznaudin]

Wonderful technology: great viewing. All the US needs to sort out now is how to deal with suicide bombers and fundamentalists...

 

 

[winsor68]

The shape and scope of warfare worldwide just changed.

Makes it sound more like Sport than organized murder... lol

That is a lot of down elevator deflection on liftoff... I wonder how much control movement they have left for unusual situations.

 

 

[willedoo]

No catapult... No hook... Its anew world out there!

Some well meaning enthusiasm from the original author, but the USS Wasp is an amphibious Marine assult ship, not a carrier. They're just retiring Harriers for F-35B Lightnings, so they already had no catapult, no hook. Only thing that's changed is the radar signature and a bit of technology. The carriers will still operate conventional launch and recovery with the non-STOVL F-35C.

 

Nice to see the programme achieving a few benchmarks lately, though.

 

Cheers, Willie.

 

 

[Guest Michael Coates]

That is a lot of down elevator deflection on liftoff... I wonder how much control movement they have left for unusual situations.

Look at the exit nossle, thrust vectoring.... Its WAY down on the end of takeoff so they probably need the elevator to counteract