Speaking as a humble Rotary wing engineer but all the pictures that I've seen of the X35 transitioning from forward flight to vertical show lots of doors for the lift fan popping open. Surely a candidate for a lot of BDR or will these doors not pop open on landing thus killing a lot of you poor pilots. From a personal point of view saw the X32 at Farnborough last year,looks ugly but appears rugged enough to survive ops off the back of a CV? what do you lot think? The other question is are the boys from JF2000/SHAR/HAR IPT going to form the JSF IPT so that any lessons may be learned.
Not bitter just seen it too many times.