Now the thing about the F-35 is it can hover and has stealth technology but apart from that it was totally outclassed by the Euro-fighter(Typhoon)i mean the F-35 has a huge Turing circle where as the Euro-fighter can turn on a sixpence really it is that good also the Euro-fighter is faster and can fly higher and move like nothing I have seen before. The guy from the USAF that was presenting the F-35 called it the future of air combat just no the F-15 outclasses it so does the harrier jump jet (and of course the Euro Fighter) anyway it was a good day with the Red Arrows the BOB Memorial flight and Yak 3.
However pretty airshow manoeuvres may not be all that useful in a gun fight? Who knows? But you can't base the worth of an aircraft by how it performs at a airshow when there is nothing on the line.
Mailman
