Ha, no. I don&#x27;t think that at all. I&#x27;ve watched many videos of them flying &#x2F; vertical take-off. That&#x27;s why I refer to my comments on the matter as &quot;hyperbolic&quot;. When I say &quot;half-way kidding&quot; I&#x27;m referring to the costs primarily; as in, I have doubts that the quantities of money being dumped into the program are going completely to the F-35, and I argue that, perhaps, some (a lot?) of it is being funneled in secret to top secret projects. To state that this definitely isn&#x27;t happening would be silly, since we wouldn&#x27;t find out for many years, and to state that it&#x27;s probably not happening seems a little silly, considering the level of cost overruns we&#x27;re talking about, and considering the fed closed F-22 but now leaves F-35 open, despite gross cost overruns and lobbying by the rest of the military–industrial complex.