BF2S Forums Why does the F-35B have a booger on its nose?

Paco_the_Insane wrote:

Wait, can some one explain what the Pitol tube does again?

sure. it measures airspeed.

mafropetee wrote:

fitz8402 wrote:

fitz8402 wrote:

It is flight test equipment.  No doubt about it.  Take a look a the pick in my previous post

Upon reading you entire post I noticed other problems.  1.) The army doesn't fly fighters thus it will not be receiving a single f-35.  2.)  It has nowhere near the capabilities of the f-22.

navy. sorreh.

quite true about the F-22, but the F-22 is hella expensive. one F-22 costs about $187.3 mil. one F-35, on the other hand, costs roughly $100 mil. dont say im bsing cuz i pulled this right off of the governement's own website. also, the F-35 is a lot more versatile than the F-22, making it suitable for more combat situations. heres what i think they will do: use the F-35 as our main aircraft for most of our airborn fighters, and keep the F-22's stowed away in case situations call for its superiority.

You are not BSing about that original price but it is actually much lower now.  We now have the cost down to just slightly over what a new f-15 costs.  The f-35 is nowhere near as versatile as the f-22.  Feel free to look it up.

Last edited by fitz8402 (2007-07-04 21:04:06)

slightly off topic but...anyone else think the F-35 in Live Free or Die Hard was pretty fucking cool?

i wish you could do that maneuvering in BF2...

Last edited by genius_man16 (2007-07-04 21:29:43)

wah1188 wrote:

genius_man16 wrote:

slightly off topic but...anyone else think the F-35 in Live Free or Die Hard was pretty fucking cool?

i wish you could do that maneuvering in BF2...

Haha watched it today thats possible in real life right? I was gutted it died by a little piece of poo poo falling into its hole though .

i think it's possible...

but then again, it's a movie and mostly computer generated, so who knows?

and i feel your pain, it's lame how it died b/c that box thing fell into it's.... man, i don't want to call it a hole, lol

its use for when you hover your jet can be guided in the wind.

Paco_the_Insane wrote:

Wait, can some one explain what the Pitol tube does again?

If I correct his spelling, will I get flamed again? 

I always thought it was for getting closer to the fire when roasting marshmallows, but I'm a retard.

aj0405 wrote:

san4 wrote:

san4 wrote:

Dude, learn to spell. It's pilot, with an l.

I feel totally pwned here! How could I be so stoooooopid?

Where did you take a flight science course?

wikipedia.org i'm guessing.

No, ya assholes.

I took a summer course (CTY - Center for Talented Youth) back in 6th or 7th grade. That was the greatest summer class ever. Learned the formula used to derive the minimum surface area of a wing needed in order to lift a craft of a certain weight (clearly, I don't remember that anymore, though). I loved that summer, especially "Spongeball" (dodgeball with wet sponges).

A bit of advice: Taunt neither a 6'-6" black man nor an ex-minor league pitcher equipped with wet sponges, especially when you're only 10 years old. That damned mark stayed on my chest the whole 3 weeks I was there.

lol, after reading this thread i spent like four hours of my dya trying to find out f the F-35B had thrust vectoring (not for VTOL). i then when and spent some time rethinking my life. . .

fitz8402 wrote:

Actually it is a piece of flight test equipment.  If the designers of the game would have done their homework they would have known it would not be on the production model.

Ding Ding Ding, we have a winner.

Here are some photos from the F-35A's unveiling ceremony. There is no probe thing. Again it seems that the folks at dice fucked up.

For refueling in air?

It still doesn't let it beat John McClane.