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Fighter Jet Documentary

barneysplash · 2007-10-18 20:26:36

Hi all Just a quick post to tell you about a great documentary I bought last month. It's called "Battle of the X-planes" it was screened on Nat Geo channel and I only saw half of it. I googled it afterwards and found the homepage http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/xplanes/ It's the story of the competition betweek Lockheed and…

18-10-2007 9:26pm

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Hi all

Just a quick post to tell you about a great documentary I bought last month.

It's called "Battle of the X-planes" it was screened on Nat Geo channel
and I only saw half of it. I googled it afterwards and found the homepage

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/xplanes/

It's the story of the competition betweek Lockheed and Boeing to build the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter - possibly the last manned fighter the US will ever build.
The programme goes beind the scenes at the legendary Lockheed Skunk Works - the secret design and assembly lab where the F-117A stealth fighter was created.

It's well worth a look for anyone into aviation or engineering design.

There is a link on the pbs site to where you can buy a region free dvd
of the documentary. You can also get it on amazon for about €30 inc shipping.

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