4 reviews for:

F-35: The Inside Story of the Lightning II

Tom Burbage, David Poyer, Adrian Pitman, Betsy Clark

3.53 AVERAGE

jasperchandler01's review against another edition

4.0

medium-paced

wptk's review against another edition

3.5

informative slow-paced

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The story is good, and it’s told great. It’s interesting that every detractor or naysayer is u questionably wrong when mentioned in this book, as it’s written in hindsight after the massive cost outlay. At the time the negativity was warranted. Basically makes the press and anyone not directly involved in the project to be buffoons who just “didn’t understand”. 

Obviously biased, the book is still wildly interesting. 

johnny_o's review

5.0

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This is an interesting review of the development of the F-35 Lightning II. The complexity of a project this large is mind boggling, and it’s interesting to learn about how a multinational project that cost trillions (!) of dollars and decades managed to more or less produce what it set out to - a mass scale 5th generation stealth aircraft that can basically replaces a dozen or so older aircraft types. I am going to throw a random aside in here that maybe this is why the US doesn’t have nationalized healthcare, but that is kind of BS because every other western nation participating in the project does. If you want your complicate project to see simple, check this book out.

andersonben's review against another edition

2.0

informative slow-paced