Hard to believe Aviation Week & Space Technology sent their reporter with an iPhone to record something so awesome…but the footage is still pretty good… (That blue water does make me want to go fishing…) One thing that I found interesting…the Wasp ship appears to barely be making steerage… If you look at around 3:20 in that first video, you can see the area on the water where the exhaust churned up the water, but it isn’t sliding behind the ship at an appreciable pace…
Possibly. From what I gather, this was a real dog and pony PR event. They picked up the reporters in an MV-22 near the Pentagon, flew them 90 minutes out to the LHA off the coast of the Carolinas where they got to see the F-35B in action. So I’m sure there were prohibitions on what they could and could not take… And I’m surely jealous. Hey Marine Corp…my lawn is big enough to land a UH-1Y… (hint hint)
