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Do you know why the 262 had swept back wings?

The original design had conventional straight wings, they ended up being swept back in part due to changes in the engines. To keep the proper balance, the engines had to shift back, but to save major redesign to the wing roots and torque boxes, instead of moving the wings back they just angled them.

 

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As you all most likely have heard by now we lost a F35-C off the Carl Vinson Carrier Group last week.
Details:
"Sources aboard the USS Carl Vinson say the Navy's first F35 woman pilot was at the controls of the plane which went overboard *"

 

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Looks like on "approach" she was 150 ft to the left of the deck.....
Another Karen Hultgreen incident?
(Lt. Karen Hultgreen, USN Pilot on F-18 Hornets crashed her aircraft into the Carrier...off San Diego Coast, she perished in the flight....sources tell us she was put under Political Pressure to Fly Navy Combat before being fully qualified...)

 

[Richard Cranium]

 

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F-15E Prototype - St. Louis, MO

 

[Dipstick]

(Lt. Karen Hultgreen, USN Pilot on F-18 Hornets crashed her aircraft into the Carrier...off San Diego Coast,

Uh, make that F-14 Tomcats and short of the carrier deck.

 

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Now,
Dont take me the wrong way, I have worked with and Flown with some great pilots....
Jackie Parker flew us in ARIA....................

And I worked with General (RET) Dawn Dunlap, closely, with the F-22 Program...she is a Great Pilot......