whats up with the music?

wow, kewl, we can whack more nearly starving and hopeless brown or yellow wedding parties from the air with our love. but what about that bush wall street bailout trillion and the can\'t buy-only-american stimulus trillion and can\'t have a public option 96 billion ... usa! usa! numb-er one! numb-er one! numb-er than anyone - pass the ky, i\'m hot!

Look, it\'s just a minor technical achievement to you, but Lockheed Martin deserves praise and thanks from all Americans and from all those who believe in our civilization for making this beast happen. The many careers \'wasted\' making our firecrackers hotter, bigger and better than anybody else\'s firecrackers do provide us national defense (and offense) with world-beating competence. If we must have armies, navies, and such, I feel better knowing that ours will be better equipped than any opposition we may face in our lifetimes.

Everyone complains when we are the \"world\'s police\", but no complaints when we are the \"world\'s EMT\" When we send an Aircraft Carrier to a disaster stricken land. This is some info people don\'t know when they think of our military. Our carriers have three hospitals on board that can treat several hundred people; they are nuclear powered and can supply emergency electrical power to shore facilities; they have three cafeterias with the capacity to feed 3,000 people three meals a day, they can produce several thousand gallons of fresh water from sea water each day, and they carry half a dozen helicopters for use in transporting victims and injured to and from their flight deck. Remember, it is the protection of OUR military that allows the likes of Canada, France and others to have socialized medicine (which sucks), as they don\'t have to bankroll their own military for their protection!!

I have often wondered by they don\'t launch all fighter planes with a catapult, and land using an arrester hook, as on aircraft carriers. Then you don\'t need long runways. The necessary equipment is easily portable. These planes must cost a small fortune to buy (poor old American taxpayer). By the way, the American Constitution says: no man shall be taxed on his labour. Check this out!

Aside from the fact that we built this plane to face an enemy that doesn\'t exist, the truly appalling fact is that it\'s TWICE as expensive to produce than Lockheed said it would. The fleecing of America rages on at the hands of the military/industrial complex.

@windykites1,
Then you need catapult and an arrestor hook.

Oh.... ohh.... oohhhhhh damn that\'s a fine piece of machinery. :) Why? Much as they cost etc etc buying and selling is what makes the economy move. And these are cool! Go America! lol.

If military spending moved the economy ...you have communism here and all around. The steepest military spending ever. Dear old red comrades KNEW how to make people starve. I mean: starve.
They also had some cute toys. Really cute.

Ok, nice. How is this aeroplane going to do better than the British Harrier ? There are concerns about its ability to keep stability during VTOL operations. In engineering, we all know that this type of hovering needs three point force application in order to keep stability.
A long time ago, around 1963, the Dassault Mirage Balzac did feature supersonic VTOL but they soon found the problem of having two major fuselage included engines and no third point. This F35B is just using similar trust configuration.
I know one BAE project engineer who confirmed to me that this airplane cannot achieve vertical take-off with full weapon load.
They should change the design to twin engine configuration like done in the F14 where you keep enough distance between trusts and of course one fan in the nose.
Good luck guys but you need to revise your copy.