5/27/12: by Ed Timperlake Every fighter pilot has had or will have a moment in the air when the biggest indicator in the cockpit is showing how much fuel is left: the fuel indicator immediately can dominate the pilots attention and really focus thinking on where to immediately land. Fuel…
İZMİR – Anatolia News Agency Turkey can be as significant a production base in aeronautics as it is in automotives, Turkey’s Defense Industries Undersecretary Murad Bayar said yesterday, at a press conference as the Global Industrial Cooperation conference 2012 kicked off. Touching on the benefits of Turkey’s participation in Lockheed…
By: Ross Marowits, The Canadian Press MONTREAL - Heroux-Devtek expects of its production of landing gear for the F-35 jet fighter will remain stable for the next few years before taking off due to international orders. "For the next two to three years there's somewhat limited growth but after that…
5/22/2012 - EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (Press Release) 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 Corps' fifth generation fighter to the world at the 33rd Fighter Wing. [caption id="attachment_39225" align="alignleft" width="240"…
By Gordon England May 7, 2012 Excerpts from Defense News Why is the F-16 fighter jet so successful, with 4,500 airplanes delivered and, 30 years later, still in production, while the F-35 is a continuing struggle? I was heavily involved in both programs, to include industry and government, and here…
5/19/12: by Retired Gen. John D.W. Corley and Retired Gen. William R. Looney III The Real consequences of delaying F-35 program; Slowing production will increase costs and keep pilots in obsolete fighters Although American warriors have returned from Iraq and many are returning from Afghanistan, our nation still faces serious and continuing…
A DOZEN F-35s NOW CALL EGLIN AFB HOME FORT WORTH, Texas, May 15, 2012 – The twelfth F-35 Lightning II destined for the training fleet at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., was ferried today. U.S. Marine Corps pilot Lt. Col. Fred Schenk piloted the aircraft, known as BF-11, which departed…
14:51 GMT, May 2, 2012 GKN Aerospace at Filton, UK, has commenced production of precision machined titanium structures for BAE Systems, a principal subcontractor to Lockheed Martin, for the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter aircraft (JSF). The Filton site will work in partnership with the GKN Aerospace sister operation…
