X-32: The Boeing Joint Strike Fighter Kindle Edition

Boeing X-32The Boeing X-32 Concept Demonstrator Aircraft program was the losing contender in the wider international Joint Strike Fighter competition that led to the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fifth generation strike fighter, which entered service with air arms on both sides of the Atlantic in the second decade of the twenty first century. This volume details the genesis of the Joint Strike Fighter program and describes the short take-off and vertical landing and conventional take-off and landing/aircraft carrier variants of the X-32 design. The evolution of the X-32 into the preferred weapon system concept – service models had fortune shone more favourably on the program – is covered, as is the development and X-32 flight test phases. A chronology details the flight test program of the rival Lockheed Martin X-35 Concept Demonstrator Aircraft.All technical data and the majority of graphic material has been supplied by the respective design house, developers and service customers. This second edition draws on text from the first edition, published in 2013. Read more