UK F-35B Lost

[SpazSinbad]

"...“Then you push the throttle about halfway up the throttle slide into a detent position at about 34% engine thrust request. It sits there and you check the engine gauges: if the readings are okay you slam the throttle to either Mil or Max position and then release the brakes simultaneously. Pushing through to max is like an afterburner detent. But it’s not an afterburner – you can’t go to afterburner in mode four. “It’s a very fast acceleration. The closest we would spot from the bow is 400 feet, so about 175 feet before we would actually start rotating the aeroplane [at the STO rotation line]; so very, very quick.”..." Maj. Rusnok Test Pilot July 2014 AIR International [can't stop italics - apologies]

F-35B STO & CVF Ski Jump INFO 30NOV17 PRN pp172.pdf : http://www.f-16.net/forum/download/file.php?id=26013 (11Mb)