Overview of F-35 test flights
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BF-2 returned to flight today - Flight #13 on Sunday the 13th. (And no, nothing bad happened.)
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Any pics about BF-2 flight #13 ?
neptune asked: "When does AA-01 play target fodder?"
http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-d ... ivers.html
"It's also almost time to bid farewell to the AA-1 flight test aircraft, the non-weight-optimized design that has recorded 90 test sorties since debuting two years ago. Flight 91, scheduled later this week, will ferry AA-1 from Edwards AFB to China Lake, where it will be destroyed to complete live fire testing."
http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-d ... ivers.html
"It's also almost time to bid farewell to the AA-1 flight test aircraft, the non-weight-optimized design that has recorded 90 test sorties since debuting two years ago. Flight 91, scheduled later this week, will ferry AA-1 from Edwards AFB to China Lake, where it will be destroyed to complete live fire testing."
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seruriermarshal wrote:Any pics about BF-2 flight #13 ?
A couple of pice at Fence Check...with the new paint job...
http://www.fencecheck.com/forums/index.php/topic,689.msg240886.html#msg240886
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Thanks Ztex , that's great pics .
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Fellows!
Forgive us for humbly splitting off a few of your treasurable posts into the Program Updates thread. We have made it a sticky to encourage opinions and expressions about news and stuff not related to the flight tests. FOX-3! http://www.f-16.net/f-16_forum_viewtopi ... rt-45.html
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Forgive us for humbly splitting off a few of your treasurable posts into the Program Updates thread. We have made it a sticky to encourage opinions and expressions about news and stuff not related to the flight tests. FOX-3! http://www.f-16.net/f-16_forum_viewtopi ... rt-45.html
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BF-2 is clearly performing better than BF-1. LM obviously built a lemon with BF-1, and should just put it out of its misery already and cut its losses.
Christmas comes early for Joint Strike Fighter
Stephen Trimble at the DEW-Line; http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/
Lockheed Martin confirms the BF-1 -- an F-35 flight test aircraft -- yesterday, 23 Dec. ended a 33-day, post-ferry hiatus, finally logging its first flight from the US Navy test center at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Maryland. The F-35 first arrived at Pax River on 15 November.
The short-takeoff-and-vertical-landing (STOVL) variant's pre-Christmas sortie came as slight surprise, as Lockheed passed word only two days ago that BF-1's next flight may not come for another week. It was not immediately clear if yesterday's flight counted towards the roughly 12-sortie-series required to complete the first vertical landing, a long-awaited milestone event for the program.
Stephen Trimble at the DEW-Line; http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/
Lockheed Martin confirms the BF-1 -- an F-35 flight test aircraft -- yesterday, 23 Dec. ended a 33-day, post-ferry hiatus, finally logging its first flight from the US Navy test center at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Maryland. The F-35 first arrived at Pax River on 15 November.
The short-takeoff-and-vertical-landing (STOVL) variant's pre-Christmas sortie came as slight surprise, as Lockheed passed word only two days ago that BF-1's next flight may not come for another week. It was not immediately clear if yesterday's flight counted towards the roughly 12-sortie-series required to complete the first vertical landing, a long-awaited milestone event for the program.
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AA-1 flight 91 (final flight and ferry to China Lake)
After three years of service and completing Jet Blast Deflector tests at Edwards AFB, AA-1 made its 91st and final flight to Naval Air Weapons Center China Lake, Calif. on Dec. 27. AA-1 was accompanied by a dual F-16 and F-18 chase planes and the aircraft landed Code 1. It is being hangared until final movement to the Live Fire site for the later live firing tests.
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After three years of service and completing Jet Blast Deflector tests at Edwards AFB, AA-1 made its 91st and final flight to Naval Air Weapons Center China Lake, Calif. on Dec. 27. AA-1 was accompanied by a dual F-16 and F-18 chase planes and the aircraft landed Code 1. It is being hangared until final movement to the Live Fire site for the later live firing tests.
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