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F-35Bs join forces with British aircraft carrier to make history
Sep 28, 2018 - This week the first F-35 Lightning fighter jets have landed on the deck of the United Kingdom's new aircraft carrier making history and marking the beginning of more than half-a-century of ‘Carrier Strike' operations. [Read more...]
F-35B crashes in South Carolina - Pilot OK
Sep 28, 2018 - A Marine Corps F-35B F-35 Lightning II crashed around 11:45h local today near Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort in South Carolina today, the Marine Corps confirmed. [Read more...]
The F-35 ‘Combat Debut’ In Afghanistan
Sep 27, 2018 - The U.S. Marine Corps F-35B joint strike fighter has successfully conducted its first combat mission over Afghanistan on Thursday morning. [Read more...]
ITF team nears historic testing with HMS Queen Elizabeth
Sep 11, 2018 - The F-35 Patuxent River Integrated Test Force (ITF) is nearing another milestone as they prepare to embark two F-35Bs on board the United Kingdom's newest aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth for First of Class Flight Trials (Fixed Wing), or FOCFT (FW), this fall. [Read more...]
Pax River ITF to conduct first-time trials onboard partner nation’s carrier
Aug 23, 2018 - After years of partnership within the F-35 Lightning II Joint Program Office, U.S. and United Kingdom team members from the F-35 Pax River Integrated Test Force (ITF) eagerly anticipate the First of Class Flight Trials (FOCFTs) onboard the U.K.'s newest aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, this fall. [Read more...]
HMS Queen Elizabeth Ship’s crew finally meet the F-35B
May 22, 2018 - Members of the flying control and flight deck control teams aboard HMS Queen Elizabeth (R08), flagship of the Royal Navy's new class of aircraft carriers, visited Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland this week for their first live peek at the F-35B Lightning II, ahead of the jet's first trials aboard the ship this fall. [Read more...]
First Italian-Built F-35B 'Rolls Out' of Cameri Production Facility
May 05, 2017 - The first Short Take-Off/Vertical Landing version of the F-35, or F-35B, assembled outside the United States rolled out of the Final Assembly and Check Out (FACO) facility at Cameri, Italy. [Read more...]
JSF pilot ensemble designed to keep out CB agents
Feb 03, 2017 - After several tests over the past six months to contaminate and decontaminate an F-35 Joint Strike Fighter with simulated chemical and biological agents, the 461st Flight Test Squadron has now moved forward to testing a suit ensemble designed to protect the pilot from those threats. [Read more...]
F-35B Lightning II marks an aviation first at JBER
Jan 18, 2017 - On any given day at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, you can hear the sound of freedom as F-22 Raptors circle the mountains and come in for landing. There was a different tone to that sound Jan. 9, as the Marine F-35B Lightning II joined the orchestration. [Read more...]
F-35 Lightning II has first operational air-to-air missile fire
Sep 21, 2016 - Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 211 became the first operational F-35 Lightning II squadron to fire an air-to-air missile September 15, during a 53rd Weapons Evaluation Group Weapons System Evaluation Program at Tyndall AFB. [Read more...]
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