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What is the big flap behind the cockpit on the F-35?

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What is the big flap behind the cockpit on the F-35?

Nicknamed the ‘scoop’ or ‘toilet seat’, the hatch behind the stealth fighter’s cockpit opens when the £78m jet is hovering – and is actually called the Upper Lift Fan Door.

Who sits behind the pilot in a fighter jet?

9 Answers. All fighter aircraft have one pilot, though some have two crew members. The backseat crew member is not a pilot, but often either a Radar Intercept Officer (US Navy), Navigator/Weapon Systems Officer (USAF, IDF), or Flight instructor.

What is the backseat of a fighter jet called?

1. @Joel M – that’s 99\% accurate, but in non-combat military planes (USAF) (e.g. other than fighters and bombers), the “backseater” will be called a Nav or a Combat Systems Officer, not a Weapons System Officer.

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Does the F-35 have thrust vectoring?

The F-35 redefines the multirole fighter. The only features that the F-35 lacks is thrust vectoring (although the F-35B has a shaft-driven lift fan in fact is used only to make the aircraft STOVL operation possible).

What kind of aircraft is the F35 Lightning II?

Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II. The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is a family of single-seat, single-engine, all-weather, stealth, fifth-generation, multirole combat aircraft, designed for ground-attack and air-superiority missions.

What is the shape of the F-35 fighter jet?

The F-35 has a wing-tail configuration with two vertical stabilizers canted for stealth. Flight control surfaces include leading-edge flaps, flaperons, rudders, and all-moving horizontal tails (stabilators); leading edge root extensions also run forwards to the inlets.

Will the F-35B be the first supersonic stealth fighter?

Although several experimental designs have been developed since the 1960s, such as the unsuccessful Rockwell XFV-12, the F-35B is to be the first operational supersonic STOVL stealth fighter. The single-engine F-35 resembles the larger twin-engined Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor, drawing design elements from it.

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What are the different variants of the F-35?

The aircraft has three main variants: the conventional takeoff and landing (CTOL) F-35A, the short take-off and vertical-landing (STOVL) F-35B, and the carrier-based (CV/ CATOBAR) F-35C. The aircraft descends from the Lockheed Martin X-35, which in 2001 beat the Boeing X-32 to win the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program.