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X-32B Joint Strike Fighter completes flight tests.
Advanced Materials & Processes, September, 2001
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The Boeing X-32B Joint Strike Fighter recently completed all of its flight-test requirements. The X-32B concept demonstrator has validated Boeing's direct-lift solution to the program's short-takeoff-and-vertical-landing (STOVL) needs. In one test, the aircraft took off in less than 550 feet of roll.
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Boeing will still continue testing a series of short takeoffs at successively shorter runway lengths. "The X-32B has been outstanding," says Frank Statkus, Boeing vice president and JSF general manager. "It has consistently demonstrated that our direct-lift system is ...
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