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Goodrich-Australia Delivers First F-35C Landing Gear Components
Mar 31, 2009 - Goodrich Corporation’s Customer Services facility in Sydney, Australia has delivered its first production landing gear components for the carrier variant F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft. [Read more...]
First US Marine pilots F-35
Mar 19, 2009 - Maj. Joseph T. "O.D." Bachmann today became the first U.S. Marine Corps pilot to fly the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, logging the flight-test program’s 90th mission. [Read more...]
UK announces F-35 JSF purchase
Mar 19, 2009 - British Defense Secretary John Hutton announced on Wednesday that the United Kingdom will purchase three Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II operational test aircraft. [Read more...]
Australia can retire risk
Mar 12, 2009 - The people trying to sell the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter live in an alternate reality. It must be difficult selling a product without a full working example to show off. Yet that is where the people in this program are at right now. [Read more...]
Lockheed Receives F-35 LRIP 4 Funds
Mar 12, 2009 - Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command for long lead materials and work on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. [Read more...]
Terma Secures F-35 Contract
Mar 09, 2009 - Terma has entered into an additional contract for parts for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft. On 24 February 2009, Lockheed Martin and Terma signed a contract for the supply of composite components for the stabilizers on a number of F-35 aircraft. [Read more...]
HITCO to Produce Components for F-35
Mar 07, 2009 - HITCO Carbon Composites, California, U.S.A., a subsidiary of SGL Group – The Carbon Company – announced that Lockheed Martin has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) selecting HITCO to manufacture wing skins and other components for the F-35 Lightning II program. [Read more...]
Northrop Grumman-First F-35 parts from Turkish supplier
Mar 07, 2009 - Turkish Aerospace Industries, a major supplier to Northrop Grumman Corporation on the F-35 Lightning II aircraft program, has produced and delivered its first composite parts for the jet. [Read more...]
F-35 production, testing and international participation shift into high gear in 2009
Feb 27, 2009 - In a single calendar year, the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lighting II program will complete all remaining System Development and Demonstration aircraft, deliver the first production-model F-35s to the armed services and initiate full-scale flight test operations at Edwards AFB and NAS Patuxent River. [Read more...]
Second F-35B STOVL achieves succesful first flight
Feb 26, 2009 - The second short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) F-35B Lightning II accomplished its first flight on Wednesday, Feb. 25. [Read more...]
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