That would be close to a true 1/6th, 200N +. The good thing is they have A LOT of internal room for fuel and smoke. I had never seen such internal clean space to work with.

I have to believe the same tech that is used in either quadcopters, or the Demon Cortex type gyro setups could be used to make the hover and transition pretty easy.

I think the big problem with people doing the F-35 or even the F-22 is the entire shape of the airplane is going to be an eyeball approximation at best since nobody has drawings out there with any real accuracy. Having been extremely close to the F-35 while I was out at Dugway Proving Grounds, I can say with certainly that nobody has really gotten it right yet.

That said.. I DEFINITELY would be interested in an F-35C, but please not so big that it requires a giant trailer to transport.

Real, authentic lines are out there ;-)

F-35A demo practice for Paris Air Show, Fort Worth Tx

Not bad for a first try, ever!

That high alpha pass was pretty impressive. Same for energy retention and accel.. Very cool stuff.

i talked to one of the F-16 company test pilots....he said the problem with the Falcon doing that routine was that it got too fast too quickly, and it did not bleed out speed easily...so they had to go vertical constantly. We can see on the other hand that the 35 can be balls to the wall the whole time, retain lots of energy and not necessarily over-g due to high speeds. Gonna go watch it at 1PM (day off today).

Hi, I would go for the non VTOL, F-35C version 2m80 long, nice looking and much better flying for all of us...
Arnaud

Just wanted to let you guys know that I just maiden my OLD FEJ F-35 yesterday and the jet after little so slow landing it's still one piece,the takeoff was little scary ,good straight rotation and then straight up jump,it took me about 3 circles to trim the jet and then after the trimmings decided to go gear up on straight flyby the gear worked fine,the flight was not too bad with normal pattern nothing fancy just yet,the jet it's little wobbly side to side but no bad habits,the landing was not perfect I did slowed the jet to early and almost ended on the grass before runway so I powered up for second and flared the jet too much it costs the jet to flap the runway to hard and one ger collapsed inn but there absolutely no damage was done just little wing weathering,the video is posted on YouTube under tooommmek both one from taking off and partial flight and one sepered for landing .BIG THANKS TO FALCON WINGS FOR HELPING ME OUT SETTING THE JET UP .

Awesome!!!! congrats. On my second landing I tried being fancy and go for a nose up roll out after landing, and ended up getting airborne again!! dumbass LOL That pitch up command is very effective.

Start adding flaps on takeoff, get used to it and add a bit more. They help a lot.

Again, congrats on your maiden.

David

I'm going to lower the main gear by 1/4 " and see what happens,the only problem I have I'm not able to do flaps on my setup I have delta setup for the elevators and regular alierons for wings all works together and when I tryed to add the flaps or make it flaperons I'm loosing the delta or one flap go up or other things go bad with settings ,I might split up the wings surfaces to separate the flaps with alierons.

What size will the F35 be? Will there be a non VTOL version available too?

Here is Sebastians f 35 maiden

Thanks Joe for posting the video , just got back from west Michigan jets and the place is just the best to fly jets full scale runway with no position lights like in Kentucky just waiting there to damage your jet ,I wanted to fly the f-35 there Saturday or Sunday after the show but we have a way to much wind so no chance to get more flights,got the flaps to work with my original setup so maybe better take off this time.

The plane that can't manouver doing flat spins LOL

the sequence....

I would be all over a STOVL F-35B! Bonus points for if I could fit it in my SUV, but I would buy a trailer if I had too.

Very strange that the market doesn't offer a reasonable sized (less than 25KG, maybe 1/5.5) F-35.
We have seen so many F16, L39, hawk, sukhoi...
Moreover, it should be a nice flyer in the C version, larger wings, no stol, twin wheel nose gear.
Great space to work in, mono turbine with straight pipe.

Hi going to start on a 1/5 scale in 2018. Did my maiden on the small f35 1/8 scale this month.

enjoy the vid



Nice size to handle to put in my car and Nice stable flight

I have a DerJet F-35 that I might sell.. Just feels a little strange flying another company's airplane when I'm a BVM rep..

How new is your kit? I had asked FEJ about one last year and they said they were not producing them at that time? Give us some overall impressions of quality.