SECDEF Gates Places the F-35B on “Probation”
The F-35B Lightning II short takeoff and vertical landing (STOVL) version of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) was placed on …
The F-35B Lightning II short takeoff and vertical landing (STOVL) version of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) was placed on …
Today, the 58th Fighter Squadron “Gorillas” at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., is awaiting delivery of its first F-35A Lightning …
The Dec. 17, 1935 maiden flight of the DC-3 at Clover Field in Santa Monica, Calif., did not produce huge …
The F136 advanced turbofan engine for the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) will almost certainly have its future …
Under a proposal now being debated in the Pentagon, the Air Force would take advantage of an obscure 1932 law …
The Air Force is moving more slowly than it once expected to re-engine its Boeing E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack …
The JSF program came under increased scrutiny this year, with cost overruns and flight test setbacks regularly making the news …
On June 4, 2010, a Northrop Grumman-owned BAC 1-11 launched from the company’s ES3 (Electronic Systems) Flight Test Facility at …
At a test center in the American West that has mostly escaped public notice, military pilots are wringing out two …
Airships, blimps, aerostats, balloons, dirigibles, zeppelins – once aloft, these very different lighter-than-air (LTA) platforms look very much alike. They …