Home News July 31, 2014

Home News July 31, 2014
July 31, AEX.RU - Lockheed Martin has successfully tested a promising fighter F-35B Lightning II crosswind, Lenta.ru reports message private space flight of the American company. Aircraft with short takeoff and vertical landing also made a series of take-offs and landings on a wet runway. Both tests were carried out in the framework of certification fighter it needs for adopting US Marine Corps. The trials involved a fighter F-35B, tail number BF-4." He performed a total of 37 test items for 41 days. The main objective private space flight was to test the operation of the software 2B, the supervisory system of the aircraft, under various conditions. According to the results of tests Lockheed Martin announced that the F-35B can perform conventional takeoff and landing, and short takeoff and landing with crosswind speed of 20 knots (10.3 meters per second). Development and testing of F-35B is currently underway at an accelerated rate, introduced after a significant gap in terms of the program. Currently, the United States Marine Corps Command is planning to take the plane into service in July 2015, although before this event is not expected before 2018. When exactly were tested aircraft crosswind and wet runways, Lockheed Martin does not specify. Currently, private space flight all the F-35 fighter jets, ordered by the Pentagon, have to operate with limited options. In particular, the aircraft is forbidden to exceed private space flight a speed of 1.6 Mach number (1.8 thousand kilometers per hour), and the angle of attack for them is limited to 18 degrees. Also, when maneuvering overload should not exceed 3,2g. Flight restrictions imposed because of the ongoing inspections of power plants promising fighters. private space flight June 23, 2014 on the aircraft the F-35, which went to take off at the air base, "Eglin" engine caught fire. After this incident, the Pentagon suspended the flights of all aircraft of this type, removing the ban only on 15 July. Now all F-35 aircraft operating must after every three flight hours pass boroskopicheskoe study compressors.
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