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In October 2001, Boeing lost the largest fighter program ever conceived and nearly lost the fighter business with it. For twenty-four years the company...
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In October 2001, Boeing lost the largest fighter program ever conceived and nearly lost the fighter business with it. For twenty-four years the company...
Boeing built two jets to answer two different questions — one flew clean, and one never landed vertically at full weight. Here is the...
The X-32 Was Mocked for Its Looks and Forgotten After It Lost The X-32 Sits Collecting Dust in 2 Museums – It Was No...
The X-32 is one of the more intriguing “what if” stories from the first decade of the post-Cold War era. Designed in the 1990s...
66 Flights, Mach 1.6, 20,000 Pounds of Internal Fuel — Boeing’s X-32 Stealth Fighter Had Everything Except Vertical Landing The Boeing X-32 was an...
Summary and Key Points: Boeing’s X-32 was built around a clear idea: keep the JSF affordable, simple, and highly common across Air Force, Navy,...
Summary and Key Points: The Pentagon’s rejection of the Boeing X-32 in favor of the Lockheed Martin F-35 was not merely a choice between...
Boeing’s X-32 was built to win the Joint Strike Fighter contest with simplicity: fewer parts, cost-focused commonality, and a large one-piece delta wing designed...
The Joint Strike Fighter program aimed to cut costs by maximizing commonality and using digital modeling to refine requirements before metal was cut. Boeing’s...
Synopsis: The Joint Strike Fighter competition (1997–2001) aimed to produce one stealth aircraft family for the Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps—plus allies—while reducing...