"Bryan Ashcraft" wrote:

As I recall there was a small issue of the Boeing design being a little
overweight, and the chin fairing had to be removed to save weight for the
vertical testing phase of the flyoff against the X-35. (About 1-1,500 pounds
as I recall)

Then as covered elsewhere there was the issue of Boeing were going to change
the design after the flyoff to include tailplanes, and clip the delta wings
in another effort to save weight.

I'm not sure a chin inlet was the way to go personally on a carrier deck for
CTOL. Weren't there issues with the A-7 with ingestion of FOD and crew?

But yeah, that Boeing design was ugly........ lol

Bry

F/A-32 MONICA!

"Yeff" wrote in message
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On 14 Dec 2004 06:18:47 -0800, Merlin wrote:

Why did the Lockheed X-35 beat the Boeing X-32 in the JSF competition ?
Cheaper bid or better systems ?