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F-35 Team on track for final-assembly start in late spring
Feb 16, 2005 - The four major subassemblies for the first F-35 Joint Strike Fighter are taking shape as the program progresses toward final assembly in late spring at Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth. [Read more...]
Pratt & Whitney's F135 program completes 1,000th test hour
Sep 30, 2004 - Earlier this month the Pratt & Whitney led F135 System Development and Demonstration (SDD) team completed the program's 1,000 test hour. This testing milestone represents the cumulative hours of F135 SDD Testing and includes both the Conventional Take-Off and Landing (CTOL/CV) engine tests, as well as the Short Take-Off and Vertical Landing (STOVL) system test runs. [Read more...]
Pratt & Whitney resumes F135 STOVL testing for F-35 JSF
Sep 02, 2004 - The Pratt & Whitney (P&W) led F135 Propulsion System Team has delivered and begun testing on its second F135 Short Take-Off and Vertical Landing (STOVL) Propulsion System, engine number FX643. Later this month P&W also anticipates the resumption of testing on FX641, the 1st STOVL configured F135 Propulsion
System. [Read more...]
JSF is gaining weight and price again.
Jun 30, 2004 - In June 2004 the price fot the JSF increased to 45.2 billion US dollar, in September 2003 the price allready increased to 42.6 billion US dollar. The price was originally estimated at approximately 35 billion USD. [Read more...]
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