Now I have seen everything, a CH-53 carrying a slung F35 while refuelling from a C130
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Now I have seen everything, a CH-53 carrying a slung F35 while refuelling from a C130
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Probably the softest landing that F35 will ever experience. Lovely flying, lovely filming.
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That's just showing off!
Seriously, very impressive.
Seriously, very impressive.
What's the cost of that combo?
Priceless!
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Now what could possibly go wrong with that?
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Possibly to aid the load stability? after all, you wouldn't want the load generating lift hanging on the cables as you chunter along
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Now I wonder, if the F35 is considered an aerodynamic load
The F-35 was just an airframe, no engines, mission systems. It was used for ground handling training. I imagine they purposely wired it up for nose down. Generating lift would have been a massive pain in the ass for the crew
What's the point of linking (and this way pushing) an pro-russian Twitter-Account for some american military video?
http s://ww w.dvid shub.net/video/920871/marines-new-ch-53k-helicopter-transports-f-35-airframe-between-test-sites-maryland-nj
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Maybe refuel the F-35 inflight so it could start fly away?
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http s://ww w.dvid shub.net/video/920871/marines-new-ch-53k-helicopter-transports-f-35-airframe-between-test-sites-maryland-nj
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Maybe refuel the F-35 inflight so it could start fly away?
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MORE INFO: USMC CH-53K Transports F-35C And Refuels From KC-130 En Route - The Aviationist
"...The F-35C and rigging weighed about 22,000 pounds after removal of its mission and propulsion systems, outer wings, and additional equipment...."
VIDEOs: Marine’s new CH-53K helicopter transports F-35 airframe between test sites in Maryland, NJ: [24 Apr 2024]
https://www.dvidshub.net/video/92087...es-maryland-nj
"U.S. Marines flying a CH-53K King Stallion heavy-lift helicopter transported an F-35C Lightning II airframe from the F-35 Integrated Test Force at Patuxent River (Pax ITF) to a Navy unit located at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, April 24. A Marine aviator from Marine Test and Evaluation Squadron 1 (VMX-1) piloted the most powerful helicopter in the Department of Defense that carried the inoperable airframe, which was without mission and propulsion systems, outer wings, or additional equipment, to the Prototype, Manufacturing and Test (PMT) Department of the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) Lakehurst for use in future emergency recovery systems testing."
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Non-flyable F-35C airframe lifted by CH-53K: [13 Dec 2022]
https://www.dvidshub.net/video/87144...-lifted-ch-53k
"A non-flyable F-35C Lightning II airframe is flown as part of a CH-53K King Stallion external load certification lift Dec. 13, 2022, at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. The structure is from the first F-35C carrier variant aircraft, CF-1, a former developmental flight test jet from the Patuxent River F-35 Integrated Test Force (ITF)...."
Side JPG: https://www.navair.navy.mil/sites/g/...P00281_072.jpg
FCLP JPG: https://www.navair.navy.mil/sites/g/...0281_002_0.jpg
"...The F-35C and rigging weighed about 22,000 pounds after removal of its mission and propulsion systems, outer wings, and additional equipment...."
VIDEOs: Marine’s new CH-53K helicopter transports F-35 airframe between test sites in Maryland, NJ: [24 Apr 2024]
https://www.dvidshub.net/video/92087...es-maryland-nj
"U.S. Marines flying a CH-53K King Stallion heavy-lift helicopter transported an F-35C Lightning II airframe from the F-35 Integrated Test Force at Patuxent River (Pax ITF) to a Navy unit located at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, April 24. A Marine aviator from Marine Test and Evaluation Squadron 1 (VMX-1) piloted the most powerful helicopter in the Department of Defense that carried the inoperable airframe, which was without mission and propulsion systems, outer wings, or additional equipment, to the Prototype, Manufacturing and Test (PMT) Department of the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) Lakehurst for use in future emergency recovery systems testing."
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Non-flyable F-35C airframe lifted by CH-53K: [13 Dec 2022]
https://www.dvidshub.net/video/87144...-lifted-ch-53k
"A non-flyable F-35C Lightning II airframe is flown as part of a CH-53K King Stallion external load certification lift Dec. 13, 2022, at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. The structure is from the first F-35C carrier variant aircraft, CF-1, a former developmental flight test jet from the Patuxent River F-35 Integrated Test Force (ITF)...."
Side JPG: https://www.navair.navy.mil/sites/g/...P00281_072.jpg
FCLP JPG: https://www.navair.navy.mil/sites/g/...0281_002_0.jpg
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What's the point of linking (and this way pushing) an pro-russian Twitter-Account for some american military video?
http s://ww w.dvid shub.net/video/920871/marines-new-ch-53k-helicopter-transports-f-35-airframe-between-test-sites-maryland-nj
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Maybe refuel the F-35 inflight so it could start fly away?
mfg
http s://ww w.dvid shub.net/video/920871/marines-new-ch-53k-helicopter-transports-f-35-airframe-between-test-sites-maryland-nj
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Maybe refuel the F-35 inflight so it could start fly away?
mfg
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