X-32: The Boeing Joint Strike Fighter: Volume 2 (Research & Development Aircraft) - Softcover

Harkins, Hugh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1903630207 ISBN 13: 9781903630204

Publisher: Centurion Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

The Boeing X-32 Concept Demonstrator Aircraft was the losing contender in the international Joint Strike Fighter program, which led to the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II 5th generation strike fighter entering service with air forces on both sides of the Atlantic. This volume details the genesis of the Joint Strike Fighter program and describes the short take off and vertical landing and conventional landing variants of the X-32 design. The evolution of the X-32 into the preferred weapon system concept, which would have been the service models had fortune shone more brightly on the program, is covered, as is the development and flight test program. A chronology details the flight test program of the rival Lockheed Martin X-35. While the X-32 aircraft were retired to museums, the design heritage of which they were a part has been carried over to Boeings 6th generation fighter studies. These sixth generation fighter concepts emerging in the second decade of the 21st Century are aimed at a potential service entry sometime after 2025.

About this edition

• Publisher: Centurion Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1903630207
• ISBN 13: 9781903630204
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 86