What is the thing on top of F-35?

A lift fan mounted behind the F-35B’s cockpit allows the jet’s short takeoff and vertical landing (STOVL) capabilities. Single-seat, single-engine fighters with integrated sensors, the warplanes are used to conduct missions and operations from the Royal Navy’s Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers.

What is the flap behind cockpit on F-35?

General Consensus: The New Flappy Bird. It’s called the upper lift fan door. It’s an air intake to the vertical lift fan in the F-35B, which sits behind the pilot and partially provides the downward thrust in short take off / vertical landing (STOVL) mode.

What is the 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. It is built by Lockheed Martin and many subcontractors, including Northrop Grumman, Pratt & Whitney, and BAE Systems.

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.

What is the difference between the F-35 and F-22?

Lockheed Martin states the F-35 is intended to have close- and long-range air-to-air capability second only to that of the F-22 Raptor. Lockheed Martin has said that the F-35 has the advantage over the F-22 in basing flexibility and “advanced sensors and information fusion”.

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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