Perhaps Norwegian Air Force Major Morten Hanche, who is the RNoAF's chief test pilot on the F-35, can help explain this?
Over at the Americanmilitraryforum - where most of the American members here have moved to - Technofox, who is PDF's
@Technogaianist , the other Norwegian girl on PDF (my girlfriend
), has a great translation of an article explaining why the F-35 can turn, can climb, and can run.
It's under the USAF section, the thread's called -
If not the F-35, then what else and the post is #13.
I had posted a poorly translated version of the same article in the Nordic Military thread on PDF, in the Europe and Russia section, but the last database problem wiped it out.
@Immanuel you may wish to look at it too.