Sprey: That was nonsense, just marketing hype. The demo was as phony as all the other [air show] demos are. They had a super-light F-35, and the performance wasn't all that impressive. I talked to a guy who prepped an A-10 for the air show, and they did the same thing-they [made] it so light it actually looked super ma-neuverable, which it's not, except at low speed. The F-35's turn rate was not impressive. It was [much] slower than a 30-year-old F-16. An engineer friend of mine clocked it at 17 deg. per second. Any old F-16 can do 22 [deg. per second].
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