Here is a link on the JSF STOL first flight. Underneath the photo there are two links, one is a high resolution photo and the other is a video...
Now it is time to blow my own horn ...I did all the mechanical design checking for the Helmet Mounted Display for this aircraft .
http://www.lockheedmartin.com/news/p...rstflight.html

 

Sawwweeeet! That is by far the coolest helmet I have ever seen

 

Too bad I'll probably never get to work on one. I'm still working on 20 year old F/A 18's... still workin 18C birds...

 

That is sweeeeet

I might have worked on some of the stuff that helemt interfaces with

~Rob

 

I read the test results for that first flight and they said everything worked quite well except for one small glitch.....The helmet sighting system kept flashing a small DTR icon on the visor from time to time

 

Tricky stuff man, congrats, that is quite an feat!

 

I heard the the siting system uses a triangle with the Ram, PSD, and GMC as the points. Keith

 

reminds me of this guy

 

I was thinking it actually looked like Master Chief from Halo.



In any case, VERY COOL!

 

Interesting that Tomlinson did not retract the landing gear.

 

On first flights, SOP is to leave the gear down.

 

Why did they spray down the pilot after the flight?