The Crazy Engineering Behind US F-35B Monstrously Powerful Vertical Fan

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[@dangermouse2235]

I hate to have to point out that the Harrier was developed purely by the UK. The US were only involved later.

[@rf7012]

I hate to have to point out the UK version of the harrier was scrapped because they couldn’t make it work correctly, the US perfected it

[@Then.72]

@@rf7012 why couldn’t the UK Harrier work properly? The only problem we had was the tight arsed government that wouldn’t fund it because the subsonic and supersonic version were designed in the UK with the P.1127 subsonic engine that the Harrier used and the P.1154 supersonic engine that the Russians copied for the Yak 141 and the F35B also copies. The USA just put a new Radar on the aircraft but they always had a Pegasus engine on them and the aerodynamics never changed. The APT tilting train was also developed in the UK but the British government didn’t fund it as it was sold off to Italy and bought the Pendolino back from them

[@fernandoc.dacruz1162]

E o que isso importa, são aliados, sempre trabalharam juntos, os britânicos também são muito competentes, não é como russos e chineses que só copiam e mesmo assim fazem porcarias.

[@charlesosbun3642]

No problem! Glad to givcxbrothers across the pond credit where credit is due! We Yanks couldn’t build a Rolls Royce if our lives depended on it!

[@josephinebennington7247]

I quite like pointing out the originality of the UK’s highly successful and first vtol Harrier. It did work and fight most correctly.

[@colinzhu9631]

AV-8B and F-35B are engineering marvels

[@procatprocat9647]

The British Harrier Jump Jet should have been mentioned in the history section.

[@daronnecalvin2917]

Amazing and easy on the eyes🇺🇲❤️

[@drmarkintexas-400]

Thank you for sharing 🙏🇺🇲🏆

[@pharthasa]

I love this country’s defense budget

[@phuongso9371]

that's amazing

[@grimey5.565]

I am proud as a machinist to make parts for the lift fan system. It truly is an engineering Marvel.

[@tr5you]

Thanks

[@alexzz965]

this jet is so cool，i have never imaged that there is an insane thing in the world，the project is awesome hh

[@Jbseguritycam]

Creo que es una obra de ongenieria unica el f35 y f22 Raptor maquinas increhibles!!

[@arindamray1985]

LOVE ❤️ FROM 🙏 INDIA 🇮🇳

[@BadAssWartHog-A10]

Lockheed Martin's engineers are top-shelf.

[@samsonsoturian6013]

Fun fact: Lockheed-Martin aircraft was originally Wright aircraft (yes, the Wright Brothers). The name change is from a series of mergers as old executives took new partners then left.

[@pringlized]

The Harrier still blows my mind.

[@Michael-nh8ht]

The F-35 B obviously has a state of the art thrust vectoring system. Orville & Wilbur Wright would be amazed at how far their great success has advanced since their first flight over 100 years ago.

[@zf250]

I like it AV x

[@osmankorkmaz9124]

Hem uçağı vermediniz hem ödenmiş paraya coktunuz .haydutlukta bir numarasiniz

[@suyambulingam7982]

Great👍

[@phelanpawly2507]

I still think the Harrier with it’s true vertical take off to flight transition is still the only true “jump jet”.

[@AA-xo9uw]

Hardly

[@yanni2112]

Had a couple Harriers land on The USS Tripoli while on WESTPAC, amazing and LOUD

[@eleventy-seven]

The F35 is a modern Yak 141. Lockheed licensed the design to research it and there are a lot of similarities.

[@user-tq6es3xt1j]

이 영상에 남도형성우 같은 분의 더빙이 있었으면 참 좋을 것 같습니다~

[@amiejambu8493]

Nice BRO👍😄👍

[@maverickcruise99]

The Harrier GR.1 made its first flight on 28 December 1967. It officially entered service with the RAF on 1 April 1969, and the Harrier Conversion Unit at RAF Wittering received its first aircraft on 18 April. I was on an ACF ( Army Cadet Force UK) manoeuvre exercise on Salisbury Plain involving regular forces, territorial, and ACF. We were camped in heavy woodland when we heard a loud jet engine sound, it was a Harrier Jump Jet, I am 60yrs of age and 16 years old when this happened it wasn't the early 80s. It was truly magnificent. I watched it being steered carefully along a path under its own power on its own wheels through the trees into an opening, where upon its engines were maxed and up it went into the air, then the pilot gave all assembled, in complete awe i must add, a (wing wave) before powering away. Please stop rewriting history. The World Wide Webb is freely available for research. I acknowledge that America has a truly phenomenal aircraft in the shape of the F35. But please no more altering British aviation history to gild your aircraft development history. Did you participate in improving the Harrier? Well, I can't be bothered to research that, to be honest. But I do know America brought up our remaining Harriers and tooling and spares . Does that not speak volumes ? If you can't beat em buy em, i.e., proper Land Rovers not the posh ones used by football stars and posh housewifes or house husbands lol for the school run, proper utilian Land Rovers which are used still used extensively, worldwide in a diverse range of demanding arduous roles. I know that Argentinian pilots underestimated this outstanding quaint little British aircraft to their peril as Harrier pilots could slow and stop and then pursue them and fire missiles straight up their jet exhausts ! So, no more 1981 first deployment nonsense please please, and no more bending the facts. Or put another way. WHY LET THE TRUTH GET IN THE WAY OF A GOOD STORY. I am a passionate follower of aviation history you might rightfully assume. Whilst you're at it, look up the founder of the Hawker aircraft company, who guote didn't like to single out a single aircraft in terms of his pride and achievement, i.e., Hawker Hurricane, but was drawn to the Harrier Jump Jet as something = A LITTLE BIT SPECIAL. How modest - some folk could do with taking a leaf out of his book, I think !

[@Mr.mysterious76]

True

[@AA-xo9uw]

"The Harrier GR.1 made its first flight on 28 December 1967."(sic) Incorrect. First GR.1 flight occurred on 31 August 1966. First production GR.1 flew on 28 December 1967.

[@danielhooke6115]

"Please stop rewriting history." +Nothing+ said in the video "rewrites" history. Just because the full development of the Hawker Siddeley P.1127 nor the Hawker Siddeley Harrier nor the British Aerospace Sea Harrier or even more pertinently the Yakovlev Yak-141 were not included, does not mean history is being rewritten. The "1981 first deployment" remark was specifically regards the AV-8B Harrier II: there is no "bending of facts" by this statement. "The World Wide Webb is freely available for research." versus "Well, I can't be bothered to research that, to be honest." Your own hypocrisy laid bare. "I am a passionate follower of aviation history you might rightfully assume" with a giant chip on your shoulder: no doubt your commentary is an expression of deeper issues in your personal history, but you need to wake up to yourself, dude; you are not the righteous crusading knight you might think you are.

[@joenop3393]

5:49 Thats Eglin AFB Florida!! Come on man!

[@xfreakerx1]

I was part of a contractor team when these were developed, they are awesome but let me just say close to the deadline they were jerry-rigged a bit (not in tolerance). Hopefully, by now they smoothed it out.

[@Knuckledragnation]

5:43 With all due respect the McKinley Climatic Lab is located on EGLIN, as in Egg-Lin, Air Force Base not ELGIN, as in El-Gin. ✌🏽🇺🇸🙏

[@user-eu5wu3mr7m]

روعة

[@mujaku]

The Battle Penguin will prove to be a great airplane.

[@wuyiukwong]

F35😍the best fighter 💪💕

[@RPRIMICI]

I didn't know Avro developed that flying saucer type aircraft. Most Canadians have heard of the Avro Arrow but not the Avro saucer. The Arrow was cancelled abruptly by Canada's Prime Minister despite its huge potential. It was controversial back then (1959) and even today, it's a topic of debate in Canadian history classrooms in Canada.

[@facbl]

Only remembering that was totaly mecanic ! With todays technology with microchips to control the stability i think que same project could fly with safaty like a drone !

[@ronblack7870]

the saucer was underpowered for it's weight . it never got more than a foot or 2 off the ground. and controlling it was difficult . no one knows for sure why the arrow was cancelled but allegedly the soviets had managed to get all the blueprints . at the time the prototypes had the highest performance of any such aircraft.

[@steventwiddy3402]

There is a very good reason that we call the harrier the Carolina lawn dart 🎯

[@Then.72]

Useless pilots and god knows what you would have called that ridiculous Ryan vertijet that needed a coat hanger to land back on

[@GRosa250]

The pilots say it’s infinitely easier to vertically land the F-35 than it was a Harrier

[@xvdd1]

The Harrier required a lot more skill in it's vertical configuration because of the necessary manual controls this was an aircraft designed in the 60's without the provision of fly by wire consequently it was unforgiving, so with the benefits of computer intervention the F-35 was bound to be a leap forward I do not think it can "viff" though.

[@Then.72]

I bet the pilots say it’s easier to land jet today onboard a carrier than it was a biplane because technology helps over the years and the British did put the optical landing system on carriers too

[@samsonsoturian6013]

It's a pretty established science by now. Just not as useful as most people think.

[@singinchicken]

Good video. I know redoing audio after the fact isn't a real option, but the McKinley Climatic Laboratory is at Eglin (egg-lin) and not Elgin (el-gin). Splitting hairs I know! I've been there on a tour. Cool place. Great stuff. Keep em coming

[@johnsargent993]

Not splitting hairs...One is an Air Force Base and the other a watch.

[@shelbysmama4974]

Yes. And also the test pilot's name is Billie Flynn. Not Billue.

[@DieHardSportsvideos]

the technology that china wanted to have but they can not have 😅🤣

[@user-eg6zq4pi7u]

ini proses menambahakan hydraulic system?

[@cic-jakevanddalgeemyers.2739]

Why do we have to show our enemies how our jets were made? This is pure madness!! I hate when people do this .....

[@SKumar-rb1tz]

To feel proud about their technology and it's an advertisement to sold these things in open market.

[@klebbermendhes4544]

Agora sei de onde vem os discos voadores 😅

[@maverickcruise99]

Also, of the subject may i offer the P51, after adding the Rolls Royce Merlin engine, was actually able to bomber escort at the altitudes required after fitting our engine ( Merlin ) Which history writes truly transformed it. Look up Eric ( Winkle ) Brown a pilot accredited with flying the most aircraft types in history, first jet landing on an aircraft carrier etc etc should you be in need of a history on aircraft development during ww2 1939 1945, flew most allied and axis aircraft. Eric who was also a test pilot and heavily involved in aircraft development. Laters.

[@arindamray1985]

INDIA URGENTLY NEEDS SOME OF THESE F 35 B LIGHTNING 2 TO COUNTER BOTH CHINA AND PAKISTAN

[@jaymac7203]

Microsoft Flight Simulator ✈️ did a great job with this aircraft in the Simulator its so much fun to fly lol

[@NasPlays985]

Wow

[@saifskyline]

The Russian Yak-41 was also a vertical take-off aircraft

[@jacklav1]

The F35 lift system was designed by Lockheed Martin but was developed by Rolls Royce in Bristol UK in a $1.3 billion dollar programme.

[@AA-xo9uw]

The first eleven were built in the UK. All lift fan production since 2012 occurs near Indianapolis in Plainfield, Indiana.

[@neutralprofit7699]

Its so powerful it allows the jet to fly in water

[@laloolhouvum1634]

Why F 35 B and C do not have an internal gun, like in the A variant?

[@user-eg6zq4pi7u]

oh ..kalo barang logam sudah mau bergerak ke atas meskipun hanya 2 -10 Cm saja. itu sudah dinyatakan berhasil... tinggal menambahkan kipas untuk mendorong ke angkasa. suwun bule....

[@baw.]

บ้างครั้งผมก็คิดยากจะล้างโลก.จริง

[@SuniL.KrishnA]

If we don't consider vertical landing and take off , Which one takes a lead overall F22 or F35? 🤔

[@Then.72]

Good point but both aircraft got technology from Jet powered VTOL because when Russia spied on the UK they got ideas for thrust vectoring as the F22 slightly does today but their Jet powered VTOL aircraft didn’t ever take off around the world

[@biswajitbhattavharjya2115]

Maintenance charges.

[@serkanertan1089]

TFX ❤👑

[@neyazalzahwi6919]

😍😍😍

[@wobby1516]

It all started with the brilliant British designed and built Harrier Jump Jet. 🇬🇧

[@AA-xo9uw]

Were it not for Wibault and the US taxpayer/MWDP, that "British" design would have remained on the drafting room table.

[@Then.72]

@@AA-xo9uw 🐂💩troll

[@vastsiper]

@@AA-xo9uw you are aware that the harrier was in service with the RAF and fleet air arm since the 60s right.

[@Negotiator_ZA]

And after 15 mins of wasting my time I am still waiting on the bit about the tech behind the vertical fan!?

[@gopalortega8149]

Son unos aprovechadores...

[@shelbysmama4974]

Ummmm, someone forgot to SPELLCHECK. The test pilot's name is Billie Flynn. Not Billue.

[@davidtoto-cc3ge]

❤️

[@josegegas]

Great technology. Sad it is just a weapon....

[@SKumar-rb1tz]

Make a video about Russian SU -57 and compare the difference.

[@stephencoster9532]

The first Transformer jet was the British Harrier Jump Jet that was made here many years ago; then sold to your Marines. Stay safe...

[@AA-xo9uw]

The Shorts SC1 preceded both the Kestrel and Harrier.

[@masdukizakariya2373]

Kenapa judulnya pake bhs indonesia tp tak ada teks terjemahannya?

[@Ridesharereflections]

So we’re gonna ignore the Osprey?

[@guadalupegandara8961]

Be able to do without a Landíng strip!

[@GeorgeKlinger]

Way too many ads

[@Ridesharereflections]

If I flew one of these for a living you couldn’t tell me shit. 😆😆😆

[@jimslaughter4579]

ELGIN AFB FL? DUH! It's EGLIN!

[@tonkpb]

Still waiting to see the "crazy engineering".

[@Aaron_Voltz]

So every time I open all my car doors, then my car is a transformer?

[@kostauric6467]

Nice Yak-141

[@Then.72]

A copy of the Hawker Siddeley P.1154 design

[@AA-xo9uw]

@@Then.72 Bravo SIerra

[@AA-xo9uw]

Old commie lie.

[@Then.72]

@@AA-xo9uw does the truth hurt you ? Read up on it because it was all a planned design by Bristol Siddeley that became Hawker Siddeley who did build the Harrier jump jet and this is where the Russians got their ideas from … 🐂💩 doesn’t exist in British engineering so who do think invented the supersonic Jet VTOL engine??????

[@mesiaslibardoagredogomez6780]

No entiendo porque tiene el titulo en español si el audio está en ingles

[@user-eg6zq4pi7u]

oh...menurunkan kecepatan kipas,kirain dibuang karbidnya.

[@mattheweburns]

7:27 an historic

[@colinbarnard6512]

Apart from 21st century computer connectivity, the Harier has been doing the job for 60 years. The F-35B is a sweet bird, but it's buiding on the Harrier' success.

[@AA-xo9uw]

Fortunately Lockheed has produced a far superior design to that of the infamous Pegasus hot gas ingesting compressor stalls of the antiquated Harrier.

[@Then.72]

@@AA-xo9uw troll alert

[@user-ld3xu4wo3n]

기름 먹는 괴물이기도 한 이유 😅

[@khalidalshuaibi1203]

للعلم الاتحاد السوفيتي اول من قام بهذي الصناعة !!

[@mysyam1752]

☑️

[@symentamscott9647]

Should faster !

[@moapqd1]

Lockheed made a secret contract to use the technology of the russian Yakolev YAK 141 copying its tail configuration, tilt motor and foward for the Joint Strike Fighter FX 35B bid.

[@aandscrawfoski]

I believe that. Russian engineers were first to put turbofan behind cockpit.

[@Then.72]

The Russian Yak copied the British design of the P.1154 ! It was never built but they designed the supersonic VTOL system along with the subsonic P.1127 system for the Harrier

[@aandscrawfoski]

@youtuber.1788 hi dude, don't see turbo fan behind the cockpit. Fans on harrier on the side of fuselage. Thanks

[@AA-xo9uw]

@@Then.72 Incorrect, yet again.

[@AA-xo9uw]

A myth perpetuated by the ignorant and the thieves masquerading as engineers at Yakovlev. The Lockheed/Bevilaqua/Shumpert JSF patent is dated May 1990. Lockheed didn't purchase Yakovlev flight test data until nearly 18 months later and the Yak-41 was rebranded as the 141 when Lockheed paid to have it demonstrated at Farnborough in September 1992 in a failed attempt to save Yak from bankruptcy. Facts are the enemy of your cabal's repeated attempts at revisionist history.

[@TommyTombs]

Sounds like freedom! 🫡 🇺🇸

[@mattheweburns]

This reminds me a lot of the hairier, but much better in practice

[@salehsror1415]

انا صاحب الفكره

[@juanjacobo36]

didnt hear an details about the "Crazy Engineering" of the F-35 lift fan, just that it had some engineering improvements. Pointless video for me.

[@jan_phd]

Let's see the Chinese copy this... lol!

[@baw.]

ตกลงผมยุด้านไหนของตัวเอง.

[@silentbullet2023]

If it's not simple, drop it.

[@user-bj2xn8jk7t]

Lockheed didn’t gave the f-35 quality and strong front landing gear but they gave it to f-22 raptor, it may break off if it hit the ground hard

[@rayjames6096]

The F-35C has a two wheel front landing gear and strengthened back landing gear for carrier use. The F-35B also has strengthened landing gear.

[@JM-lk6wo]

Typical USAF tactical aircraft have tinkertoy type landing gear compared to the far more robust gear on Naval aircraft. The two are designed for tremendously different landings. An Air Force fighter might make one carrier landing, it would be scrapped afterward...

[@permadifauza5251]

👩‍🚒 fan idea for f-35b .. from mom hairdryer

[@leventekmekci5676]

Abd şöyle abd böyle?

[@cyrilrcracing]

It's a Transformer

[@robslade2571]

A fact I bet you don't know about the Harrier. The building it was originally designed in in Belfast, Ireland is right across the road from the slip way the Titanic was launched from.

[@Then.72]

@@striker8696 that was a copy of the Hawker Siddeley supersonic P.1154 that British engineers designed but the government didn’t fund because they were tight arsed and only funded the subsonic P.1127. Russians also copied the Concorde and called it the TU 144 and tried to make it as fast as possible so the world thought it was theirs but it failed like their Jet powered VTOL aircraft and it was known as the Concordski

[@AA-xo9uw]

@@striker8696 "Dude the Yak-141 was the jet that they really based it on."(sic) A myth perpetuated by the ignorant and the thieves masquerading as engineers at Yakovlev.

[@striker8696]

@@AA-xo9uw how about you shut up and stop trying to vilify me. It literally looks like a Yak-141.

[@Then.72]

@@AA-xo9uw your ( sicK ) because one minute your telling someone that they based this aircraft on the Yak-141 then you tell a Russian that they are liars about the Aircraft ! You are a Troll See you’ve deleted now

[@AA-xo9uw]

@@striker8696 You are a mental eunuch, madame. You wouldn't last long in the private sector.

[@drom3365]

قديمة من عهد الاتحاد السوفيتي

[@tharinduniranga3373]

🙂🙂🙂🙂

[@filovirus1]

I was expecting specs and diagrams in public domain and explanation. disappointed on this one.

[@benzed1618]

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooo

[@user-jp2yo1so2j]

เข้าใจยากฉิบหาย

[@user-qk8dj7bg2n]

Lockheed Martin's engineers are top-shelf.. The Russian Yak-41 was also a vertical take-off aircraft.

[@danielhammonds2992]

Barely any real discussion about the actual fan in the F-35B.

[@danielhooke6115]

Not much "engineering" actually depicted here. (-1)

[@keepspeed]

저렇게 어려운 호버링 착륙을 70년 전에 달에 착륙 했다고 하는게 논리적으로 맞냐? 호버링 실패한 영상 밖에 없다.

[@Pabliwi]

the fan gate opening that way seems so off to me. I'm sure there could be a better implementation of that.

[@AA-xo9uw]

You are mistaken.

[@Orbital_Inclination]

It serves as a ram air scoop to increase thrust from the lift fan

[@abdullahdoel8653]

Indonesia harus punya tuh. Tapi buatan dalam negeri lah. Jangan beli terus. Kapan mo pandai?

[@golf-n-guns]

🇺🇸 𝙂𝙤𝙙 𝘽𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝘼𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖! 🇺🇸