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Up Close and Personal With the Fearsome New F-35 Jet
GIVEN JUST 15 minutes to photograph the F-35A Lightning II, most professional photographers would choose a digital camera with a massive memory card and shoot nonstop. Jeremy Blakeslee showed up for his assignment at Luke Air Force Base with an old-school film camera, and made only a few photos. (www.wired.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
And 10-15+ years of experience in photography. (from google):"Photographer and Urban Archeologist specializing in the documentation of historical industrial architecture, machinery, infrastructure and mines". Not questioning his craft or assignment, just the subject.
the fly-away price of this thing is absurd. The long list of items that can ground this thing is imposing. We have not given enough consideration to building a system just slightly beyond the capability of any and all adversaries, so we go a bit crazy on pushing the envelope into nutso-land. Will more or less than a thousand of these ever be built and paid for? You gotta love sticking our allies with having to fund these things.
Well, in speaking of sticking our Allies, the Brits have also got the cost of a sooper dooper Aircraft carrier almost built, and basically designed around this hunk of junk. They will really get screwed royally when the final price tag come in, if there ever is one.
just another reason why it is enjoyable to take some vested raghead skanks out. 2004-2006. salaam maleekum to your hole in the ground.
Everyone blasts this plane, yet it's more capable than anything it's replacing. So it has problems? So did every other major aircraft system we've every deployed. The F-16 had engine problems that caused flight restrictions requiring it to remain within glide distance. The F-14 had huge teething problems also and suffered from major cost overruns. Having spoken to guys who fly this plane, I get a distinctly different impression from them that all you internet "experts". The way forward often is not an easy path. We've lost all our ability to push through problems as a nation...it's sad.
No, you have it wrong. It's not just a couple of technical problems, and it's not just "Internet experts" pointing out the flaws. One of the critical problems with the entire program was trying to make one airplane fit different missions. As someone else mentioned, this forces you to compromise, in the worst sense of the word. The result is, no one gets the best airplane they could get. No other airplane had these many problems, this serious, or this expensive. It doesn't come close. Sounds like you are one of those misinformed "Internet experts."
It may very well eventually and after many more dollars be made to work. That said, when we are already light years ahead of any other enemy nation from a technology standpoint, IS IT NEEDED; especially in this day of multi trillion dollar deficits.
I find a Hasselblad with a 120mm lense was more than adequate for the shoot. He got 30 shots in 15 minutes -30 seconds to choose the area, frame the picture, consider the light and insure little distraction is in the background. Excellent job...