Dat, Draken,
Thank you - I'm just trying to help people understand the issues faced in getting an aircraft like F-35B to sea.
Yes, there's a heat (and blast) issue - and it's a bit more than a storm in a tea cup. You don't get 35,000 pounds of aircraft to hover yet still go supersonic with a decent weapons load without a significant amount of jet blast. But it's an issue that can be handled by the usual array of measures we've been doing at sea for some time.
Jets on a flight deck, with lots of people, weapons, radio emitters, and a moving ship have always been an issue, and they will stay an issue. Jet blast is just one of those special factors (proximity, time pressures, safety, etc) that make maritime aviation so different (not better, just different) from land based ops. Teams like the FAA and the USN make flight deck ops look easy, pretty much like top athletes make their performances look easy. They're not.
Best Regards as ever to all those who post,
Engines