500th F-35 has been delivered to the US Air Force

[Hamartia Antidote]

Wow wow and wow !!!

nah, this is cooler, especially when it retracts the wheels, sits there for a few seconds showing its sleek profile (look I'm a floating spaceship!), and flies off..straight out of Sci-fi

 

[KingQamaR]

nah, this is cooler, especially when it retracts the wheels, sits there for a few seconds showing its sleek profile (look I'm a floating spaceship!), and flies off..straight out of Sci-fi

An engineering marvel !

 

[Ali_Baba]

nah, this is cooler, especially when it retracts the wheels, sits there for a few seconds showing its sleek profile (look I'm a floating spaceship!), and flies off..straight out of Sci-fi

Very cool - but that level of complexity and demand on the airframe, you have to wonder what its availability and serviceability will be like in 15 years from now?

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Very cool - but that level of complexity and demand on the airframe, you have to wonder what its availability and serviceability will be like in 15 years from now?

Well SU-27s didn't do Cobra moves all day...so don't expect long high stress floating displays daily from the F-35B. It's just showing it can do it.

Most of the time it just takes off like a regular fighter jet

F-35B Lightning II Start-Up & Takeoff

 

[Ali_Baba]

Well SU-27s didn't do Cobra moves all day...so don't expect long high stress floating displays daily from the F-35B. It's just showing it can do it.

Most of the time it just takes off like a regular fighter jet

F-35B Lightning II Start-Up & Takeoff

True that the Su-27's don't do Cobra's every day, but what the video shows for the F-35B is pretty much what the F-35B does do every day when it takes off from the Queen Elisabeth class aircraft carriers, so the statement does hold for the RAF.

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

Thread is over a year old. What is the current number of F-35 deliveries?