Battle of the X-Planes

The battle for the JSF or Joint Strike Fighter began when the USAAF needed a new fighter plane capable of out standing the other planes by being able to land and take off vertically (like the harrier), go to Mach 1 or more and land like a normal aircraft. Boeing and Lockheed Martin were selected for the the competition.

First they had to design the aircraft, then build them and make them fly. The vertical take off was to be one of the hardest problems for the teams to overcome.

Lockheed was going to try some thing that has never been tested but Boeing was going to stick to what they knew worked and that had been used in other aircraft.
This was Lockheed's untested Idea.

But Boeing was going to go the more conventional way.

They were building day and night to get there aircraft done which was a too much for some of the workers. They had some problems on the way but when they were finally done there was a big celebration but when the winner was going to pronounced there was a short but tense wait but then it was said........."The winner of the Joint Strike Fighter Program was.... Lockheed Martin with the X-35 design.

Boeings manager and leader of the project was upset but said that they will carry on with their other projects, later on in the coming years they to won a competition to make a fighter plane.

This was Boeing's Aircraft..

This was Lockheed's aircraft..

This is the two of them side by side..

The History.. of the X-planes.
The X-planes started with it being the experimental planes like the Lockheed SR-71. and from there it went on to many other aircraft, there are many other planes with I will not mention because Most of them were unsuccessful and many of them crashed.

Here are some successful X-planes .

In my own opinion I prefer Lockheed's plane, Boeing's one looks a bit to bulky more me.

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