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Stealthiness of the F-35 Lighting II...

Interesting project. Myself, I think it's a rather unattractive aircraft also, but yeah, it could have been uglier, LOL. Your images looks fantastic though, makes it look much sleeker than some real images.

Personally I'd love to see the B model with the thrust vectoring nozzle and lift fan for STOVL flight.

best of luck, look forward to the release!! :ernae::ernae:
 
Regardless of whether folks feel it's ugly or not, you'll likely be seeing them in the skies above your city in great numbers ~10 years from now. As for me, I'm in line for buying this model from Dino. I'm happy to support him in his endeavors. :salute:
 
Talking about cockpit functionality, I think that some of the sequences of this video show how revolutionary the F-35 interface will be:

http://www.patricksaviation.com/videos/perabrown/4344

For one, I am not familiar with the STOVL controls/procedures of the Harrier... but STOVL flying in the F-35 seems incredibly easy.

Then - if you want to read some posts of pure F-35 hate, just browse into some F-16 fan forums...:icon_lol: :icon_lol: :icon_lol:
 
...and, at least at the moment, the project is focused on the F-35A... which is arguably the best looking of the three versions :)

F-35B features a massive hump just behind the canopy (which is shortened) which hosts the fan of the lift-fan engine - a most amazing machine if you ask me...but really not the best looking fighter around...

F-35C, apart from the nose gear and the hook, has a much larger and wider wing...which makes the fuselage look even more stubby...

Back to the model...there are a lot of things that need to be done/fixed for the Beta...
 
Dino, your work is awesome. One little thing, the F35 is named Lightning II. Please note the 'n' in the middle?
 
This looks excellent, and definately something I'd pay for.

One question Dino, how is it going to be on frame rates? As much as I love your previous projects the aircraft sometimes struggle with interior texture loading and they do have a negative effect on my frame rates. The Goshawk particularly! This is not a complaint by any means, I'm chuffed to have someone out there putting out excellent work for nothing! I just wondered whether the F-35 is frame rate friendly etc?

Thank you.
 
Well...honestly the model is not very frame rate friendly. The inner and outer model complexity should similar to my F-14D (maybe will be slightly better) - at least for the models without external loads.

Texture loading may be an issue on some systems. I forgot to mention that I took the HD approach, that is main outer texture is 4096x4096 - and most of the other sheets are 2048x2048.

On my system (i920 + X295 + 4Gb + Win7) seems that enabling 4096x4096 textures does not change performance much. Performance assessment will be part of the Beta testing.
 
Dino, I've enjoyed your Tomcats for years and am looking forward to this one as well ! :applause:
 
Dino, I will wait with anticipation! The images are very enticing! One question: will it have a head-mounted display (HMD)? Falcon already mentioned it. And if it won’t, will it then have a HUD and will that HUD be collimated?<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:eek:ffice:eek:ffice" /><o:p></o:p>
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I flew all versions of the JSF in the Lockheed Martin cockpit demonstrator. The plane flies like on rails. Even landing on a carrier seems easier in the demonstrator than it is behind a small PC monitor. And landing vertically is much easier than with a helicopter. Basically, if you don’t move the controls, the plane stays right where it is. And you have no secondary effects. So if you roll to move to the right, you do not lose any altitude and the nose keeps pointing where you left it.
 
Am I weird for liking the XF-32? It looks like a modern interpretation of the SLUFF to me. I had been secretly hoping for the F-35C for carrier operations, so here's hoping that works out!:ernae:
 
I like the F-35 and liked the X-32 as well. Anyway, will you also include a production version in the package without the test probe and the two piece nose gear door (The preproduction versions have single piece nose gear doors)?
 
:wavey:

Super nice Dino - Very nice model indeed - I look forward to the release - So Many Nice toys coming out - :ernae:

Many Cheers - :guinness:
 
DaveKDEN said:
Regardless of whether folks feel it's ugly or not, you'll likely be seeing them in the skies above your city in great numbers ~10 years from now. As for me, I'm in line for buying this model from Dino. I'm happy to support him in his endeavors. :salute:
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Unfortunately we won't see them in skies here: we lost out in the congressional bidding for F-35s. They would have been up in Fairbanks (Eilson) anyway. I will have to be content with watching real F-22s and flying Dino's F-35.
 
Wow!

Very nicely done, I love this plane. Your work looks beautiful!

:ernae:
 
Being a Marine, I would pay for the F35-B.

Looking good Dino, let us know when you're ready to make it available.:salute:

RD
 
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