It had its first flight in 1969 and was basically only a fuselage with an engine. But what they seem to underestimate is that actually, the body of the fighter increases the lift a lot, which was tested with the Martin Marietta (now a part of Lockheed Martin) X-24A. The critics say that small wings give the F-35 bad lift because the wing area is crucial for an aircraft to achieve a good lift. What many critics complain about with the F-35 is that it has too small wings (in order to be stored compactly on an aircraft carrier), which gives the aircraft little lift. Without enough lift, the airplane will simply fall to the ground, or it can use extra engine power to keep it flying, however, this decreases both the fuel efficiency and the range of the aircraft. One of the main features of an airplane is obviously lift. It required thousands of engineers and a huge budget to be built.Ī Canadian documentary about the F-35 buying process: To design that new engine and fit it into an already super advanced aircraft was a tricky task. But the problems started to pile up when they started to work on the engine for the F-35B which is supposed to be able to take off and land vertically, to be used on aircraft carriers. The idea behind that strategy was economies of scale – if they produce many of the same things it would be kind of like a mass production, which would massively lower the unit cost. That idea was to use a single airframe for the F-35A, F-35B, and F-35C, which will all be used in different parts of the US military – among others the Marines and the Navy. But it was also built with a special idea in mind. It features the generation five characteristics such as top modern weapons, stealth, and super advanced avionics. The F-35 was an entirely new idea of building an airplane. First of all, we will explain what the idea of the F-35 really is and why it has gotten so tremendously expensive.
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