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“You’re taking it to war, not to the senior prom”: The Boeing X-32 stealth fighter was no paper tiger

The X-32 was an experimental demonstrator aircraft built by Boeing to compete in the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) competition. We have spent a lot of time visiting the only two of these fighters ever ...
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Boeing’s X-32 was designed to become the F-35 — it was ugly, it couldn’t pass the Marine Corps’ STOVL tests, and Lockheed won

Before the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II became the most-produced stealth fighter in history, it had to beat Boeing’s X-32 in the Joint Strike Fighter competition — the most consequential fighter ...