[BITList] Carrier Problems - U.S. Navy and Royal Navy F-35 unableto get aboard ship

[HUGH]

Colin,

This "critical design review" is just a late stage in a design process, one of a succession of landmarks at which the customer pays for anything he changes to what has been agreed up till then.  To the designers, it's just another issue letter on the drawings. It would be most unusual for the ability of a particular aircraft to land on the deck of an aircraft carrier to be considered by the shipbuilders at any stage, unless it was brought to their attention, or if they were supplying the aircraft.  Space is often provided for equipment not supplied and fitted by the shipbuilder. "For but not with" is the type of phrase used in such cases, and the shipbuilder is only responsible for, at most, an empty space with ventilation and light.  What goes into the space is someone else's business in some Naval dockyard or similar.  Any unusual or non-standard requirement would have to be spelled out in detail, so the need for a different type of arrester gear for an aircraft would have to have been specified early enough for it to have been incorporated.

Hugh.
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