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F-35 Lightning II Program Surpasses 10,000 Flight Hours
An F-35B performs a decklanding on an LPD. [Lockheed Martin photo by Todd McQueen]
Oct 09, 2013 - The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II program continues its operational maturation, surpassing 10,000 flight hours in September. More than half of the total hours were accumulated in just the past 11 months. [Read more...]
Navy rolls out F-35C
Lorraine Martin, Lockheed Martin Executive Vice President and General Manager of the F-35 Program; Navy Vice Adm. David Buss, Commander, Naval Air Forces; Navy Adm. William Gortney, Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command and Navy Cmdr. Steven Orren were keynote speakers at the Navy's F-35C rollout ceremony on October 1st, 2013 at the Navy's VFA-101 hangar, 33rd FW, Eglin AFB. [Lockheed Martin photo]
Oct 07, 2013 - The Navy's first F-35C Lightning II carrier variant aircraft squadron, the "Grim Reapers" of Strike Fighter Squadron 101, hosted a roll-out ceremony for their new aircraft at the squadron's home October 1st. [Read more...]
F-35: New fighter creates new culture for 21st Century and beyond
USAF Lt. Col Eric Smith pilots Lockheed Martin F-35A #08-0747 from NAS Fort Worth on the ferry flight to Eglin AFB on July 14th, 2011. [Lockheed Martin photo]
Sep 26, 2013 - She didn't have a smudge on her. Not a leak found anywhere. She even had that "new jet smell." Skies were blue, everything was perfect. [Read more...]
Navy launches first local F-35C sortie
The first F-35C Lightning II sortie takes off from the USN F-35 Strike Fighter Squadron VFA-101 at Eglin AFB on August 14th, 2013. [USAF photo by Samuel King Jr.]
Aug 15, 2013 - Sailors from U.S. Navy F-35 Strike Fighter Squadron-101 made history completing the first local flight in the F-35C Lightning II carrier variant on August 14, 2013. [Read more...]
Eglin F-35 fleet exceeds 2K sorties
Gunnery Sgt. Matthew Smith, a maintainer with VMFAT-501, marshals in the first Marine variant F-35B Lightning II joint strike fighter to arrive at Eglin AFB on January 11th, 2012. [USAF photo by Maj. Karen Roganov]
Aug 15, 2013 - Airmen and Marines assigned to the F-35 Integrated Training Center at the 33rd Fighter Wing here have consistently flown successful training sorties and generated their 2,000th sortie on August 13 with an instructor pilot of the Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron-501 (VMFAT-501), at the controls. [Read more...]
Navy Receives First F-35C Lightning II
Lt. Cmdr. Christopher Tabert, F-35C Lightning II USN instructor pilot from VFA-101 lands this afternoon at Eglin AFB after a two hour flight from Fort Worth. VFA-101 received the Navy's first F-35C Lightning II carrier variant aircraft from Lockheed Martin. [USAF photo by Maj. Karen Roganov]
Jun 22, 2013 - The U.S. Navy's Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 101 received the Navy's first F-35C Lightning II carrier variant aircraft from Lockheed Martin today at the squadron's home at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. [Read more...]
F-35 fighter takes another step forward
An advanced F-35 Lighting II taxis on Eglin AFB arriving to the AETC F-35 schoolhouse on May 6th, 2013. The F-35s arrival will be a major training effort at the schoolhouse and allow all military branches to train on the newest platform. [USAF photo by SSgt. Nicholas Egebrecht]
May 09, 2013 - The Air Force took another step forward with its newest fighter jet when an advanced F-35 Lightning II landed at the service's lead training base, home to the largest fleet of F-35s worldwide. [Read more...]
AETC declares Eglin ready for F-35 training
Two F-35A Lightning IIs from the 33rd FW soar over Eglin AFB's range during the unit’s first joint strike fighter formation flight on April 10th, 2012. Lt. Col. Eric Smith, 58th FS director of operations, flew the lead aircraft while Marine Maj. Joseph Bachmann, Fighter Attack Training Squadron 501 aircraft maintenance officer, flew wingman. [USAF photo by Capt. Ryan Seymour]
Dec 17, 2012 - Following an independent evaluation of Eglin's capability to conduct F-35A Lightning II pilot training, Air Education and Training Command announced Dec. 17 that the 33rd Fighter Wing can do so starting January 2013. [Read more...]
F-35B lifts off for first flight at Eglin
Marine Maj. Joseph Bachmann, a VMFAT-501 pilot, takes off in his first F-35B sortie from Eglin AFB on May 22nd, 2012. The historic flight was airborne during the Marine Corps' 100th year of aviation, two months after 2nd MAW officially introduced the service's fifth generation fighter to the world at the 33rd FW. [Lockheed Martin photo by Maj. David Drais]
May 22, 2012 - An F-35B Lightning II made its first flight at Eglin Air Force Base today, two months after 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing officially introduced the Marine Corp's fifth generation fighter to the world at the 33rd Fighter Wing. [Read more...]
U.S. Navy and U.K. Royal Navy F-35 unable to get aboard ship
CF-1's first flight, Sunday June 6. Pilot for the 57 minute flight was Lockheed Martin Test Pilot Jeff Knowles. [Lockheed Martin photo by Tom Harvey] CF-1 takes off on its first flight on June 6, 2010. Pilot for the 57 minute flight was Lockheed Martin Test Pilot Jeff Knowles. [Lockheed Martin photo by Tom Harvey]
Jan 08, 2012 - The U.S. Navy F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) known as the F-35C is at serious risk of never being able to land aboard an aircraft carrier. This also poses a risk to the U.K. aircraft carrier program which is supposed to use the F-35C at the end of the decade. [Read more...]
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