F35 to display in the UK this year.
 

A F35 is to display at the RIAT and Farnborough this year.
F-35 Lightning II Jet to make Maiden British Flight
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First Public Display - MCAS Yuma 2014
 

Here's a video of the first F-35B public airshow display at MCAS Yuma 2014:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRtPtcAaULk

Looks a real crowd pleaser.

Hmmm, so many doors, hinges, swivelly bits - all having to work together, every time, without fail...

As one particular 'engineer' might say: "The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain."

If it looks right, it flies right!

Not a chance! No high speed pass. No inverted flight! Very large turn radius!

It's a joke! The Lightning was much more impressive and I suspect, more fun to fly!:ugh::ugh::ugh:

Only if you're very easily pleased!

-RP

I will say the noise is most impressive, especially on take off. I have seen B's in the pattern and up pretty close for takeoff and landings. I could not distinguish any lift fan noise over the jet during the rolling landings I saw. The barn door over the lift fan surely looks like it shoud rip off. Must be a robust hinge.

Absobl00dylutely ...

Spitfire ... EE Lightning ... TSR2 ... Chipmunk ... IRMC :ok:

As for this LM F-35 thing that looks like a pregnant monkeypea ... no chance ... :sad:

#FunctionOverForm :=

The guy doing the F-35 commentary talks about "extreme agility" at 1:30.....

What an absolute pigs ar5e of an aircraft. They should put this thing out of its misery. If that`s all it can manage after endless hours of modelling, simulation and thousands of flying hours; then there`s no hope.

They could always do a ski jump demonstration !............

Oh wait :rolleyes:

UK F 35B STO Short Take Off Video Clip
 

UK F-35B STO Short Take Off

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC5J2SxTgZk

Clever, but still as ugly as sin....

To someone that understands something of the complexity of what's going on in that take-off it's all very clever. But to a layman it looks like it just about staggers into the air. The punters will be asking why it can't do what the Harrier does - or in the UK "did".

Very clever ... but still not a ski jump ; )

But we're not saying the Harrier's/was pretty are we!

Wow - an impressive demonstration of the impossible!

Compared to the F35 it is.

Mechanically more complicated than a Chinook - or any helicopter for that matter?

Sun.