X-32: Boeing's Ugly Duckling Stealth Fighter
Though it failed to “make the team,” so to speak, the X-32 does live on, at least as a museum piece, thus assuring it some degree of “gone but not forgotten” status.
Source: nationalinterest.org
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Though it failed to “make the team,” so to speak, the X-32 does live on, at least as a museum piece, thus assuring it some degree of “gone but not forgotten” status.
Years ago, both the Boeing X-32 and the Lockheed Martin X-35 were battling to win the right to become the next Joint Strike Fighter. As history notes, Boeing lost to the Lockheed Martin F-35. However, the rivalry between the two airplanes may have improved the design and performance of the F-35 Lighting II.