03-01-2013, 01:12 PM
G.Irish Wrote:Yeah sucks for Boeing that they lost the F-22 and JSF competitions to Lockheed Martin. Of course they didn't even have their VSTOL prototype flying for the competition so as big a disaster as the JSF program has been, I suspect it would've been worse if they had gone with the X32.Actually I'm wrong, Boeing did have their STOVL variant flying for the competition, but they did have some problems meeting all of the requirements with it. Apparently in STOVL configuration the X-32 couldn't go supersonic (says Wikipedia). I saw a documentary on all of it but it was probably 4 or 5 years ago.
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