The Boeing X-32 is a concept demonstrator aircraft that was designed for the Joint Strike Fighter competition. It lost to the Lockheed Martin X-35 demonstrator, which was further developed into the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II.

2022年2月4日 · In a recent interview, the chief test pilot for the X-32 program tells us all about the jet and why it lost to the X-35. That pilot is now-retired Commander Phillip “Rowdy” Yates, a former Naval aviator who had served as, among other things, the F-14 Tomcat air-to-ground weapons test officer for Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 23 (VX-23 ...

The Boeing X-32 was a multi-purpose jet fighter in the Joint Strike Fighter contest. It lost to the Lockheed Martin X-35 demonstrator, which was further developed into the F-35 Lightning II. In September 2000 the X-32A made its first flight, and it made a total of 66 flights during four months of testing.(U.S. Air Force photo by Ken LaRock)

2025年3月26日 · X-32: Boeing’s Attempt at a Fifth-Generation Fighter. Boeing’s approach to the JSF competition focused on minimizing manufacturing and life-cycle costs. The X-32 was designed around a large, one-piece carbon fiber composite delta wing, which provided structural simplicity and reduced production costs. The wing had a span of 9.15 meters and ...

2025年2月8日 · The Boeing X-32 lost the Joint Strike Fighter competition to Lockheed’s F-35, but why? A look at the design flaws, last-minute changes, and strategic decisions that shaped modern air power.

2023年12月26日 · Many unusual-looking aircraft have been developed over the years, but none are as ugly as the Boeing X-32. Designed as part of the Joint Strike Fighter program in the mid-1990s, the fighter ultimately lost out to a prototype submitted by Lockheed Martin, which became the famed F-35 Lightning II.

2016年4月25日 · The Boeing X-32 was a prototype aircraft developed for the US military's Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program. The Boeing submission faced off against the Lockheed X-35 which went on to win the lucrative defense contract, leaving the X …

Boeing X-32: The heavyweight lying on the canvas In the technological maelstrom of the early millennium, the Boeing X-32 and the Lockheed Martin X-35 engaged in a fierce air battle for supremacy in the Joint Strike Fighter program.

2009年9月26日 · The X-32 was powered by a single advanced turbofan engine fed by one large intake under the cockpit. A unique aspect of Boeing's original inlet design was its ability to move forward and downward to open an auxiliary intake slot bringing in more air for flight at very low speeds (such as landing aboard an aircraft carrier on the Navy variant).

2021年7月29日 · Boeing was assigned X-32 while Lockheed Martin received the designation X-35. The Boeing X-32 used a novel airframe shape combined with a direct-lift STOVL configuration. The Harrier-style direct lift concept required the lift nozzles to be on the center of gravity of the aircraft.