Originally Posted by LowObservable
I remain flummoxed by comments such as those from the clearly sincere and well informed Engines (on the program's technical side) contrasted with the documented work of Navy construction engineers with their pizza-oven-concrete landing pads. Both sides cannot be right.
Ah, Yes... the difference between an improvised temporary operating location which is good for AT MOST a dozen or so landing/take-off cycles by a single F-35B (and likely fewer, at least in that particular 1,500' length of asphalt/concrete) and a permanent landing field intended for hundreds of landing/take-off cycles by a dozen or more F-35Bs over the period of an extended operation (or thousands by scores of F-35Bs over 3 decades or so for permanent facilities) is SOOO hard to comprehend.
