Cool Nova Special!

[ultimatebob]

Nova is showing a special called "Battle of the X Planes" right now. If you are curious about the new Joint Strike Fighter or how is was developed, you might want to watch this.

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

I'd be watching Buffy right now, but its being preempted for Cleveland Cavs basketball.

I guess its the Nova special for me. Looks interesting.

 

[Heifetz]

Very cool show so far.


Heifetz

 

[Gujski]

watching it now... pretty cool

 

[Spikey217]

Very cool. Too bad it wasn't longer.

 

[GTaudiophile]

I just watched it. Very well done and sometimes even intense. Competition once again brought out the best of both companies.

One thing they should have mentioned, though. I think the gov't was hesitant to give Boeing the contract, because doing so would leave Lockheed without much business in a down economy. It would suck for everyone to have both commercial and military aviation industries controlled by one company.

 

[titanmiller]

darnet! I wrote that on my calander a month ago. I really wanted to see that!

 

[ElFenix]

i saw that. i thought that the JSF couldn't do supersonic, from that aussie article on it.

 

[her209]

Are you Eastside?

 

[fluxquantum]

i just caught the last part of it. it was definitely fascinating.

 

[cliftonite]

man i missed it :|

 

[Dudd]

I was flipping back and forth between that and 24. Very interesting. Anyone know what you need to do to be able to work on a project like that? Obviously you need some degree in Aerospace Engineering, but do you need a PhD, Masters, Bachelors, military experience, what?

 

[titanmiller]

Hopefully I'll be flying one of those (or the F22) in 10 years.

 

[Tiger]

I think the gov't was hesitant to give Boeing the contract, because doing so would leave Lockheed without much business in a down economy. It would suck for everyone to have both commercial and military aviation industries controlled by one company

Exactly what happened to McDonnel-Douglas when Lockheed won the F-22 competition.
That was one glaring error in the show. One anylyst said this was the first time there has been a head to head competition of prototypes.
The F-22 beat out the F-23 during flight test because the F-23 left a visible contrail on the trailing wing in high G turns.

 

[hagbard]

Originally posted by: ultimatebob
Nova is showing a special called "Battle of the X Planes" right now. If you are curious about the new Joint Strike Fighter or how is was developed, you might want to watch this.

Yeah, they're really going to need those planes to deal with the threat of the future...gorilla warfare. <sarcasm mode now off>

 

[MaxDepth]

Originally posted by: hagbard

Originally posted by: ultimatebob
Nova is showing a special called "Battle of the X Planes" right now. If you are curious about the new Joint Strike Fighter or how is was developed, you might want to watch this.

Yeah, they're really going to need those planes to deal with the threat of the future...gorilla warfare. <sarcasm mode now off>

Get your stinkin paws... off... me... you. damn. dirty. ape!

 

[Dudd]

Originally posted by: hagbard

Originally posted by: ultimatebob
Nova is showing a special called "Battle of the X Planes" right now. If you are curious about the new Joint Strike Fighter or how is was developed, you might want to watch this.

Yeah, they're really going to need those planes to deal with the threat of the future...gorilla warfare. <sarcasm mode now off>

What else could we mock Canada and France with if we don't continue to innovate?

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
i saw that. i thought that the JSF couldn't do supersonic, from that aussie article on it.

They probably meant it cant do supercruise.

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: Dudd

Originally posted by: hagbard

Originally posted by: ultimatebob
Nova is showing a special called "Battle of the X Planes" right now. If you are curious about the new Joint Strike Fighter or how is was developed, you might want to watch this.

Yeah, they're really going to need those planes to deal with the threat of the future...gorilla warfare. <sarcasm mode now off>

What else could we mock Canada and France with if we don't continue to innovate?

Think they would be interested in our remaing fleet of f-4s?

 

[ultimatebob]

It looked like the Boeing prototypes were rushed, and the bugs that popped up during testing really hurt their chances. Lockheed probably "sealed the deal" with their final presentation of the plane going supersonic and landing vertically in one test, because the Boeing vehicle couldn't go vertical without weight reduction modifications.

 

[neomits]

yea, it was quite a cool little documentary.

The boeing plane was so damn fat and ugly

 

[The Wildcard]

It was a great documentary. Hahah and yes, the boeing model was not particularly appealing.

 

[Yzzim]

WTF those planes can hover!!! It looks soooooo weird to see the plane just hovering there in mid-air like a helicopter.

(btw, I know the harrier (sp?) can do it, but it's British technology )

Looks like Doc brought some technology back from the future

 

[DanTMWTMP]

anyone captured it?.... anyway i can download it?

 

[Iwentsouth]

If it comes down to a tie go by looks.

That is why Lockhead won =)

Looked better.