Inside the F-35 Factory: The Most Advanced Aircraft Ever Produced
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- čas přidán 20. 07. 2021
- I had a chance to tour the Lockheed Martin F-35 factory and meet with 3 of the top experts in the world. The factory is incredible, there are over 200 F-35's being built simultaneously. Give it a watch and let me know what you want to see next in the comments.
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The irony of the engineer saying he wasn't born in America, but was proudly contributing, is a very beautifully American thing to say...
And that my friend is one of the many reasons why this country is so great!!
@@grim7965 but boy are there many which make it a bad country..
It's people like him who renew my pride in America.
As an immigrant , I approve this message . God Bless America !
@@doverdown8718 always will be people like that no matter where you go. These days a lot of people are so obsessed with being “good” they don’t see they end up being the exact opposite.
I work on the flight line. I would have really enjoyed meeting you. Nice to see the pilots of these planes come and appreciate how they are built and tested.
thats actually so cool dude
FROM AUSTRALIA - WE LOVE OUR F35's - THANK'S MATE - ::: )
I work there also. Building 200
@@Detailed_Design1 Also super cool
I miss working the flight line worked out there for two years about 12 yrs ago was great.
This is awesome to hear behind the scenes....these are some SMART people!!
2 or 3 days ago A British F-35 fighter jet has crashed into the sea
during a routine operation in the Mediterranean, the Ministry of Defence
has said.
£100m British fighter jet crashes into Mediterranean
Thanks Hasard. I was in charge of Business Development for the LM JSF/X-35/F-35 and it is amazing to see how far we have come. Lots of great stories of how it started and now I see F-35s flying out of Miramar daily. Keep dispelling those myths.
I work at a large truck building facility, and this is inspiring. I'd love to take a look on what skills are needed to work there. I would take so much pride, like the owner, knowing I get to build these magnificent war machines. As a prior Army Enlisted I salute you sir. Thanks for your service.
Awesome video, man! Most favorite thing i learned from this is that part about the Lockheed engineers using 80486 microprocessor for F-22's!! Freakin 486's and created a legend like the F-22! Thats just insane. Thank you, Hasard!
The 80486 microprocessor was NOT what drove the F-22....he said the processing speed was basically equivalent to the 486 at the time
@@johnpeasant7859 Oh I think I could've phrased my sentence better, I meant for the purpose of design formulation, simulation and such developmental aspects. Not using them in the jet. Thats what he said and it makes sense as it fits with the F-22 design timeline too with both set in the early 90's.
@@johnpeasant7859
True.
the F22 has/had a 700 mips processor. That's quite good back then. They had plans to update to 2000 mips.
(but the CPU and chip set is long out of production).
On the other hand? Your wally mart budget smart phone for less then a $100?
Well, even the lower 4 core snap dragon running at 1.4ghz? it has 4 of them.
So, cheap $80 smartphone = 5700 mips
F22: 700
So that smart phone has about 8 times the mo-jo (processing) as the F22.
(the f22 actually about maybe a first gen Pentium - the next chip sets that came after the 486.
But, yes, computer power today has come a very long way.
The F35 uses the Power-pc chip set from IBM. It is the same architecture used by the Lawrence Livermore labs when they run computer simulations of nuclear bomb explosions'. It also the same chip sets used by IBM for their Artificial intelligence (AI) systems.
Needless to say, the F35 does not lack computer power (or better said - will not!!!). They are rolling out a new CPU next year for all F35's. It will increase memory, and also increase processing by a whopping 25 times (times - not %!!!!).
@@FirestormX9 Oh I for sure missunderstood him. I thought he said that the processer in the JET is a 486.
@@draygoes yeah
I can watch this video over 50 times and not get bored, thnx hasard.
Santi has been mission critical throughout the life of the F-35 Program …. and is the rare case of being one of the best human beings you’ll ever meet.
This is one of the coolest videos I've seen in awhile.
Never been here, but was at the Sikorsky Blackhawk and 53k production line and it’s fascinating. Got to take some tours when I worked as an engineer there
My Dad worked on F4 phantoms for the US airmen as a member the the South Vietnamese Airforce during the Vietnam War. Escaped to a US carrier during the fall of Saigon and immigrated to the US. Started off at boeing and then for Lockheed until he retired. He's so proud of his work on the C5, f22 and f35.
So your father was a traitor? Nice. What a story to be proud of
@@ronjeremy5826 at what point did he say that???
That’s super cool.
@@ronjeremy5826 The south vietnamese were on the U.S. side till they fell. How his he a traitor?
@@ronjeremy5826 fk commies
Videos just keep getting better Hasard, thank you !
This was very cool to watch, thank you for doing this!
6:09 shows signatures behind the raydome. Are all the aircraft signed or was that airframe significant?
damn nice spot dude, I totally missed that
Apple computer used to do that even on the computer case molding. You open a older Mac, and you see the signatures of all the team that worked on the Mac computer engraved right into the case.
Pride, and doing a good job, and even putting your signature on such work is alive and well at Lockheed.
Saw my first F35 yesterday at an air show I must say I was impressed.
Major Lee, one of your best presentations !! Keep up the good work, Hasard, your following is growing.
This was great! Thank you.
I was privileged to visit the production line many years ago. AF-1 had just been pushed off the line and was preparing for first flight of the A model. AF-2 was front of the line. Fast forward to now, I am back to supporting and leading F-35 flight science flight test. Both of these ships continue to do amazing work. Hazzard, you need to go do TPS and join the fun!
I’ve had the privilege of sitting down with Brick a couple times. Man is he a good dude. He’s so knowledgeable and willing to dumb it down for us nonpilots. Been working at the factory for almost 3 years. Glad to be a part of this program.
That’s pretty damn cool that his brother flys f18s. I bet Hasard does all the shit talking, though.
You must not know navy pilots then
@@whatohhellnah you don’t hasard personally don’t act like you know what his relationship is
@@89turbomk3 relax dude. I’m prior Navy and there is a lot of ribbing between the services, I know firsthand
I think I'd rather fly the f18.
@@michaelottesen6143 even if you were u don’t know hasard and his brother
Brick was my MO back in the Navy days!! Good to see him continue with his flying career.
Thanks for your videos Hasard, always interesting to listen to you and this one is pretty cool as well.
Was waiting for this video! Awesome.
Another brilliant insight Hasard. Wonderful for you to have such access behind the scenes. Thanks for showing us this aspect of this wonderful fighter jet.
Awesome video mate, took us places we normally wouldn't see, and those questions were on point. Great work as always. Thank you.
Thanks Hasard! I could wish for an hour or more of this :)
Great content and well edited! 👍🏽
Great video. Very interesting interviews. Thanks for sharing.
There's a piece over at National Review by Kevin Williamson just bashing the F-35 program. He represents precisely what Hasard was saying about the fact that the F-35 program has been subject to a level of media scrutiny - especially social and digital media - that just never existed in say, the '70s for the F-16. The only thing that seems to be a constant for all military projects is cost overruns, but the F-35 has been singled out for something which is not unique to it.
You are so easily mislead
@@Yor_gamma_ix_bae how so? So you agree with Williamson? Why?
@@blurglide Air battles aren’t going to be fought in turning fights anymore so I don’t know how much that’s going to matter. Like I said, the F-16 was plagued with all kinds of problems and they lost far more of them in crashes. This aircraft supposedly being a failure is in a vacuum and the obvious question of “compared to what?” never seems to get asked, especially with the level of technical complexity involved with it.
@@Yor_gamma_ix_bae
Silly troll
I mean, the hornet also got some bad press in it's early days: czcams.com/video/4xJBvKJht78/video.html
"Pretty soon you're going to be like Air Force" :) LOL
Dude said let’s not get crazy 🤣
Amazing experience, just hearing everyone! Great video, sir!
Great video, I really enjoyed all of the interviews and insight into the F-35.
Great video. Great collaboration with everyone.
What a great video, was awesome to see the factory and hear the test pilot and engineers give there opinions about the program. People need to realize America don't build bullshit aircraft , every country in the world wants to be us in the air !
Your welcome America. With Love, Fort Worth, Texas.
Thank you. Also, You’re*.
Really cool! Thanks everyone that was able to make this video happen.
Thank you for your hard work, perfectionism and patriotism.
Great video! I love my job and being able to see these things fly everyday.
Great video. Thanks for the insight.
I could have watched a whole hour of the tour with Hasard. I wanna see more.
"Better Ride Quality" now thats what I'm interested in !... NICE Video. GO NAVY !
Outstanding video. In more ways than one.
I have been waiting for this video
More stuff like this. I like it. Thank you for doing this video.
Great to hear some Positive about the F-35.
So awesome!
This needs more views
Great vid, m8!
Really great I formative interviews.
I know this segment is a year old (hey, not everyone was here from the beginning), but my gosh it's great seeing a segment on my old program! And to see Santi interviewed, what a way to bring back memories! I worked with Santi on the F-35 program, I can tell you that what you see here is what you'd see every day from him. I always thought I was privileged to work some great people at LM Aero; great to see them still out front!
Althought im not a pilot nor military, i do love this plane , congrats in loving what you do. Hope to get the patch, nextime you do a giveaway. Keep doing what you do like that
Beautiful birds shown, keep on the good job for viewers !
Proud to work on this jet!
Good and interesting stuff, thank you.
You're videos are fantastic.
Great effort ! Keep it up . 👍
Just found your channel!
Awesome! My dad was an AF fighter pilot and I’m a retired airline pilot and I teach pilots to fly the Cessna Citation X. This stuff is amazing! What an aircraft! My dad would have loved this fighter!
I’m amazed at all the abilities….”hover w little to no airmanship!” What!? Technology! Soon they won’t need us pilots!😳😳😳
Be great to the rest of the interaction with the workers at the end of the video
What an excellent video.
Checkmates checkmate.
Realy I like this factory so much
I LOVE JETS AND ROCKETS A LOT ❤️💐💐
These are amazing to see fly daily above my office. Love living next to hill afb.
Awesome video. Blows the mind to realize there’s only a handful of 5th gen fighters outside of US/allies and this one room has 200 of them under construction!
Great video.
Mini-F22s for allied air forces is a hell of a thing🔥
Nice video with a great inside looking out perspective, wish I could of heard more of their rebuttals to the F-35 detractors...
Most likely, those rebuttals are VERY highly classified.
awesome clip, kick butt kite.......thank you
Great channel, great content, awesome and interesting person. Upvoted
Very cool!
Cool patches!
2:09 Not the softest touchdown ever 😂
It really wasnt that bad just funny
I've found you...
That’s actually pretty picture perfect for a harrier. Any time you’re landing at the boat, you put it down.
Deck landings are firm on purpose
F-35 TP: "Don't let the Harrier community fool you".
Well, don't let him fool you !
The Harrier is early 1960s mechanical hovering technology.
In the days of stabilised drones costing under 100$ at any toy shop, it'd be a shame if the F-35B didn't hover any better than Harrier technology reaching retirement age !
@@Wannes_ The Digital FLCS logic for the X-35B was pioneered on the UK's VAAC Harrier testbed. Brits have been on board before JAST when there were ASTOVL and SSF dark programs in the 1980s.
That is so cool 😎
Very cool
Wow! man so cool 😎
Such a great channel
Great video, thanks ! any chance you will do one on Saab's Gripen ?
very cool
Great video
So nice to get the perspectives with these guys, Hasard! What a great team there at Lockheed/Martin.
Don Kinard !!! He’s been through it all on this Assembly Line.
so nice
When that engineer said he was from Cuba it gave me such awesome chills. God blessed him.😊
Great video! Any thoughts on the Swiss choosing the F-35?
i went to the plant 42 northrop grumman f35 fuselage line when was 8. the amount of white paint and all the jets and everything blew my mind. felt like a sci fi movie
Nice 👍
great video. I choked up at 9:18 🇺🇸
This was live from the Ft. Worth F-35 Factory, a place that formerly use 2 built & assemble F-16s.
Question for Hasard: What kind of watches do you and your pilot buddies prefer and why? Breitling, Bremont, IWC, G-Shock?
Great, I would pay to tour the factory.
I love to see your video 😊😘😘😘
The f35 is America's gem!
I have been there. Working tougheder.
I used to live near that factory
Sheer Beauty ... ❣
F35 my favorite
Just curious about one more thing. If you have a load out externally on the wings, does it auto trim for the imbalance after a pickle?
Boom!
👊
Dayum. Just once, id like to feel what this thing can do. Imagine the Gs
Those are three of the coolest living humans
What would be very interesting to know is the educational background of these gentlemen in LM. Which Academic institutions they attended? What did they study? What if somebody aspires to design the 7th gen of fighters, what should they study in the next 5 - 10 years?
That's like asking "How long is a piece of Rope?". We came from all over ... from Texas/Texas A&M to CalTech and Embry Riddle to MIT and everywhere STEM is taught. And keep in mind that much of the LM Aero platforms (F-16/F-22/F-35 & C-130J) are designed/manufactured "Overseas" so those Engineers went to Universities in the Host Countries as well; LM Aero "purchases" many of the Systems ... Fort Worth has total overall control and responsible for "Integration".
So in answer to your question as to what should be studied "today" for the next Gens ... impossible to narrow it down but there's something for everyone on complex platforms in Aerospace. It takes many diverse skills to design and build it ... from folks with metal forming, electrician, plumbing skills to advanced STEM backgrounds ... including how to drive vehicles and run a "broom" ... it is a "Team Effort". It's sort of like getting a Law Degree ... Universities teach the "basics" but you learn much more when you join the "Team". And don't forget ... LM didn't design/build all that "Manufacturing/Test Equipment/Robotics" ... they purchase that based upon general needs. So you see, there are literally hundreds of thousands of people involved ... all over the World. But that's just my view after working at GDFW/LM Aero for nearly 4 decades ;) Check 6
@@craigsowers8456 Thank you for the reply. I always believed that the people who invent and develop such planes, are the unsung heroes. The officers (at the risk of their lives) get the credit, but the people who build the planes make achievements and write history that in the long run benefits all mankind.