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Posts Tagged ‘Joint Strike Fighter Aircraft Program’

Just like human, aircraft is having its age and retirement period. Joint Strike Fighter is a program that is hold to replace the aging for new aircraft. In the replacement program, there was a competition atmosphere between Lockheed Martin X35 AND Boeing X 32 to replace some aircrafts. The result shows that Lockheed Martin X35 is having better performance than Boeing.

The Lockheed Martin X35 is having approximately 41,000 pounds weigh, but the high technology and great performance allow the aircraft to make a vertical landing. It is a great achievement in the aircraft industry. The ability of vertical landing shows that not only that this aircraft having a great performance, but also accurate handling. The test of Lockheed Martin X35 and vertical landing was hold in March 18^th this year with Pilot Graham Tomlinson in the control cabin.

Joint Strike Fighter is participated by so many nations including Canada, Netherlands, Turkey, Australia, Denmark, Israel, UK, US, Italy, and Norway. Joint Strike Fighter was actually a merger of two projects, The Joint Advanced Strike Technology and The Common Affordable Lightweight Fighter. Those two projects are started from 1993s and in 1995, UK government signed MOU to join the program to enhance the aircraft technology.