On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 15:51:06 +1100, John Cook wrote:

On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 04:26:57 GMT, "Mitch Benjamin"
wrote:

Lockheed Martin Corp.'s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is projected to cost $5.1
billion, or 17%, more than budgeted, forcing a one-year delay and a cut in
the number of planes produced, according to Pentagon documents.

And only two years into the program.



I also heard that at the last design review that the STOVL is 350kg
overweight, but still within the "not over this weight" catagory, but
more alarming is the CV which is 35% overweight....

I also heard they were reviewing the quick build method (where large
sections are bolted together with quick mate surfaces) to a more
time consuming and labour intensive conventional method to save a few
hundred kilos the quick build method entails.



Cheers


John Cook

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What you "heard" is bullsh** You are not on the design team, and certainly
are not cleared for such information.

Al Minyard