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Realistic F35A

3,480 SkyboardAviation  15 days ago

The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is an American family of single-seat, single-engine, supersonic stealth strike fighters. A multirole combat aircraft designed for both air superiority and strike missions, it also has electronic warfare and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities. Lockheed Martin is the prime F-35 contractor with principal partners Northrop Grumman and BAE Systems. The aircraft has three main variants: the conventional takeoff and landing (CTOL) F-35A, the short take-off and vertical-landing (STOVL) F-35B, and the carrier variant (CV) catapult-assisted take-off but arrested recovery (CATOBAR) F-35C. The aircraft descends from the Lockheed Martin X-35, which in 2001 beat the Boeing X-32 to win the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program intended to replace the F-16 Fighting Falcon, F/A-18 Hornet, and the McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II "jump jet", among others. Its development is principally funded by the United States, with additional funding from program partner countries from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and close U.S. allies, including Australia, Canada, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, the United Kingdom, and formerly Turkey.[5][6][7] Several other countries have also ordered, or are considering ordering, the aircraft. The program has drawn criticism for its unprecedented size, complexity, ballooning costs, and delayed deliveries.[8][N 1] The acquisition strategy of concurrent production of the aircraft while it was still in development and testing led to expensive design changes and retrofits.

CONTROLS
AG1-Canopy
AG2-Lights
AG3-Master Arm

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IMPORTANT
Try to continually pitch up when taking off, because for reasons i don't know it will drift on the runway and holding down pitch is the only thing that seems to help

CLICK HERE FOR BEAST MODE
https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/8Qh4HR/F35A-Beast-Mode

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General Characteristics

  • Created On Windows
  • Wingspan 35.4ft (10.8m)
  • Length 51.7ft (15.8m)
  • Height 16.0ft (4.9m)
  • Empty Weight 23,357lbs (10,594kg)
  • Loaded Weight 32,489lbs (14,737kg)

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 8.715
  • Wing Loading 65.1lbs/ft2 (317.8kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 499.2ft2 (46.4m2)
  • Drag Points 9214

Parts

  • Number of Parts 531
  • Control Surfaces 0
  • Performance Cost 2,400
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    critique from the F-35 guy
    - the power to weight ratio is a bit too high
    - flaps are flipped
    - inaccurate loadout placement (the AIM-9X cannot be carried internally and only available externally, unless newer blocks comes out)
    - the looks are alright
    - the gun has a really low burst

    4 days ago
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    6,588 AirNK

    “Drifts on runway”
    Guys we have the F35A Deja vu

    4 days ago
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    Excellent work, pretty good looking.

    4 days ago
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    @SPTNR To small of Picture, they cant see the detail.

    4 days ago
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    Awsome

    14 days ago
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    10.0k SPTNR

    Why no one upvote

    14 days ago