What it is Like to Fly an F-35: Interviews with Three F-35 Pilots

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What it is Like to Fly an F-35: Interviews with Three F-35 Pilots​

• KRIS OSBORN, WARRIOR MAVEN - CENTER FOR MILITARY MODERNIZATION
• DEC 24, 2022

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The F-35 has a 25mm cannon, 5th-Gen stealth configuration & unmatched “sensor fusion.” Go behind the scenes with Warrior Maven's, Kris Osborn as he interviews F-35 Fighter Pilots

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By Kris Osborn - President & Editor-In-Chief, Warrior Maven

The F-35 is armed with a 25mm cannon, flies with a 5th-Generation stealth configuration, attacks with an entirely new generation of air-to-air and air-to-surface weapons, yet its most defining characteristic may ultimately lie in the often cited realm of “sensor fusion.”

This sensibility seemed to emerge as a consistent point of emphasis from an interview I did recently with three F-35 pilots. Lockheed Martin F-35 Test Pilot Chris “Worm” Spinelli, who spent 24 years in the Air Force, told me the aircraft is defined by “data integration.”

 

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US F-35A Shows Off Weapons Bay in Hypnotic Low Pass Maneuver (10:29)​

 

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F-35B Lightning II Start-Up & Takeoff • Valiant Shield 18 (5:59)

U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II fighter jets participate in exercise Valiant Shield 18 at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam on September 16, 2018. Valiant Shield is a U.S. only, biennial field training exercise (FTX) with a focus on integration of joint training in a blue-water environment among U.S. forces. Unit - Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121 (VMFA-121).

Film Credits: U.S. Air Force Video by Senior Airman Dhruv Gopinath - Released