2016-07-07 By Robbin Laird When I visited Williamtown Air Base in Australia last March, I was given a tour to the bed down of the F-35 at the airbase and the shaping really of a fifth generation infrastructure for the evolution of the Royal Australian Air Force. The challenge put…
2016-07-13 The F-35B will be a staple for the USMC and the RAF and will fly with the Italian Navy as well. There are a number of other Air Forces which are clearly interested in the aircraft as well, including Israel, Singapore, Japan, and Spain. The plane can operate in…
Marines with Marine Operational Test and Evaluation Squadron One and a Royal Air Force pilot with Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron 501 successfully conducted the first ever trans-Atlantic flight of the F-35B Lightning II, June 29, 2016. The piliots highlight the ground up experience of the two services bringing the…
2016-06-30 By Staff Sgt, Natasha Stannard This historic flight that brought the team to the United Kingdom from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J.[WNJSUAAP1] , was a first for not only the Lightning, but the Extender as this was the KC-10’s first time refueling the F-35A, trans-continentally. “Any time there is a…
07/09/2016: U.S. Marine Corps F35B Lighting II assigned to Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121, Marine Aircraft Group 13, 3d Marine Aircraft Wing(MAW),particpate in aerial refueling missions with KC130J Super Hercules assigned to Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 352, Marine Air Group 11, 3d MAW at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Ariz,…
2016-07-02 Although the arrival of F-35s for the Farnbourgh and RIAT air shows can be seen as a unique event, it is not. It is part of a process of the coming of the F-35 to its initial operating capability, and starting a pattern of cross-Atlantic crossings. Earlier, the Italian…
2016-07-01 According to an interview with Col. David Chace, the F-35 systems management office chief and lead for F-35 operational requirements at Air Combat Command, the plane will be IOCd with the USAF later this year. The interview is dated June 21, 2016. JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. – The F-35A is…
07/02/2016: Documentation of the first F-35A trans-Atlantic aerial refuel on the way to the United Kingdom. Credit: Air Combat Command:7/1/16
