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Friday, November 25, 2011
UK's first stealth jumpjet rolls off line – but we don't want it
The first ever supersonic stealth jumpjet to be built for the British armed forces has rolled off the assembly line. There's just one snag: Britain decided last year that it would no longer have jumpjets, meaning that the aircraft will never serve with the Royal Navy or RAF.
Regular readers will no doubt recall that ever since the 1990s, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) had planned to replace the famous Harrier jumpjet with the Short Takeoff and Vertical Landing (STOVL) version of the upcoming F-35 stealth fighter-attack aircraft, now in flight test, which will equip US forces and many others in coming years.
In fact, Britain's interest in the F-35B meant that the lead test pilot on the type is a Brit (Graham Tomlinson, filmed above carrying out the F-35B's first vertical landing.)
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