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F-35B exceeds STOVL thrust requirement
The F-35B Lightning II tethered to a specially instrumented hover pit with its powerful engine running, tests its propulsion system in short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) mode on May 25th, 2008 at Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth, Texas. [Lockheed Martin photo]
Apr 24, 2009 - The F-35B Lightning II short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) variant has demonstrated during testing that it produces excess vertical thrust – more than required to carry out its missions. [Read more...]
No Shack, Just a Miss
F-35A - CTOL [via jsf.mil]
Apr 05, 2009 - Misleading senior political leaders is no way to fix the problems that face the Air Force. [Read more...]
Goodrich-Australia Delivers First F-35C Landing Gear Components
F-35C - CV
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
USMC pilot Maj. Joseph T. Bachmann became the first Marine to fly the F-35 Lightning II on March 19th, 2009. [LMTAS photo by Tom Harvey]
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
F-35B - STOVL
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...]
Northrop Grumman-First F-35 parts from Turkish supplier
Northrop-Grumman employees assembling the center fuselage section for F-35 AA-1 [Northrop-Grumman photo]
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
The second F-35B short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) variant takes off on its inaugural flight on February 25th, 2009 at Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth. F-35 development aircraft have completed 85 test flights. [LMTAS photo]
Feb 26, 2009 - The second short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) F-35B Lightning II accomplished its first flight on Wednesday, Feb. 25. [Read more...]
Pilot can't wait to get his hands on Air Force's new F-35A
Feb 12, 2009 - Air Force Maj. Bill Betts is as excited as a teenager about to take his first car out for a spin. Betts is one of the first 10 Air Force pilots who will sit behind the wheel of the service’s next fighter plane: the F-35A Joint Strike Fighter. [Read more...]
Marines get first shot at new fighter jet
F-35 Lightning II ninth flight - March 13th, 2007 [LMTAS photo]
Feb 12, 2009 - The military’s next stealth fighter jet, the versatile F-35 or Joint Strike Fighter, is slated to roar into action in 2012 when it enters service with the Marines. [Read more...]
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