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Old 22nd Apr 2014, 20:04
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WhiteOvies
 
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There's no ski jump left in the UK except Lusty anyway. The one at Pax will get its chance eventually! Fact: it was designed and built by a UK company (based in Stockport as I recall) so another benefit to the UK of the F-35 program! ;-)

Pax River museum has the X-32 and X-35 parked opposite each other and the X-35 definitely 'looks right' in comparison. Having literally crawled all over the X-32 several times I struggled to find any angle in which it looked good.

I also attended an RAES lecture from Paul Stone, the RN X-32 test pilot, which also gave several technical reasons why the X-32 lost the competition, along with some good dits!
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