Showing posts with label Airplane trivia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Airplane trivia. Show all posts

Sunday, July 14, 2013

Fighter Planes - What is Old, What is New?

F-35 vs F-104

Is it just me, or, are there a lot of similarities? Fuselage, cockpit, and wings? Of course, the wing sweep is reversed, and the engines shrouded.

Maybe the function dictates the form. Not an engineer, so I can't say.