LOL. Well, based on the above, it is YOU, KenV, who has absolutely NO IDEA what you are talking about. All of the above aircraft DO nominally conform to the Whitcomb area rule. Only the F-35 does not.
ROFL. You stepped right into it. I never said those aircraft did not conform to area rule. I asked you if they did. Of course they conform, they just go about it very differently (and MUCH less obviously) than the F-105 with its pinched waist, which is very obvious in the planview below:
Contrast the F-105's planview above with the F-22's planview below. You agree F-22 has area rule. Can you tell us how area rule is accomplished on F-22 which has no waist to pinch in?
Once you've answered that, look at the F-35 and tell us again how it does not conform to area rule.
