F-35 BF-1 Hover Pit STOVL mode ground testing.

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The F-35B Lightning II tethered to a specially instrumented hover pit with its powerful engine running, tests its propulsion system in short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) mode on May 25, 2008 at Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth, Texas.

Channel: Science & Technology
Uploaded: May 30, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Author: Yoram777NL

Length: 00:01:29
Rating: 4.55
Views: 26477

Tags: F-35 BF-1 BF-01 STOVL mode lightning II JSF Joint Strike Fighter testing new hover pit

Video Comments:
townsendmedia (August 29, 2008 at 5:04 am)
will it work in the sand? how about water?
Jaewon12345 (June 17, 2008 at 1:16 am)
F-35 owns!
F22RaptorFF (June 18, 2008 at 4:06 am)
if only this version could do VTOL but they didn'd do it because it wasted to much fuel on take off and they said they don't really need it as much so they went with the STOVL
Yoram777NL (July 1, 2008 at 7:21 am)
It can do VTOL, it's just that they won't use it, just like with the harrier.
It's just more efficient to do STOLV
F22RaptorFF (July 1, 2008 at 7:38 am)
no no no no and no. only if it has very little fuel. but they rn't even going to use it any way thats y its called STOVL. if u post a vid please know about the aircraft
Yoram777NL (July 1, 2008 at 7:43 am)
LOL U just said it yourself: only if it has very little fuel, so just like I said it CAN do it it's just not efficient so they wont.
F22RaptorFF (July 3, 2008 at 4:02 am)
ya if u want to take off and climb about 200ft then have to come back down the F-35 is not a light fighter.
Yoram777NL (July 3, 2008 at 6:33 am)
Ur exaggerating now, u could take of VTOL then refuel in air then do the mission, just saying theoretically... (And it's not a light fighter, but for a large part that's because it's designed to carry so much fuel internally, and it's trust to weight ratio isn't bad)
F22RaptorFF (July 3, 2008 at 6:36 am)
no teh f-35 is pretty heavy as it is and with weapons and fuel... its not going very far
undertake782 (June 16, 2008 at 3:25 am)
I don't want it to replace the A-10 thunderbolt. Amazing airplane but it can't do the A-10's roll.