A US F-35B Lightning II makes the first vertical landing on a flight deck at sea aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1) on October 3, 2011. Photo: IC As China is reportedly building more ...
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program continues to rack up the milestones with the F-35B short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) variant breaking the sound barrier for the first time. The F-35B, ...
USMC reduces orders of F-35B in favor of the F-35C. Is there a place on the battle field for a STOVL 5th gen jet? Should the Marines even have a 5th gen fighter given their mission? Is the F-35B the ...
A Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II fighter jet crashed and caught fire Friday morning at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, sending a towering column of black smoke visible for miles across ...
Short-takeoff-and vertical-landing (Stovl) Lockheed Martin F-35Bs returned to flight on Feb. 12 after being grounded for almost a month following the Jan. 18 failure of a fueldraulic hose to the ...
Pratt & Whitney’s F135 powerplant for the Lockheed Martin F-35 suffered a second turbine blade failure on 4 February, the same day the US Department of Defense tried for a third time to cancel the ...
Lockheed Martin's Fort Worth, Texas plant is beginning to look like a final assembly line. The first short take-off and vertical landing F-35B, aircraftBF1, is taking shape and behind it is B G-1, the ...
FORT WORTH, Texas, 12 June 2008. The short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II completed its first at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. in Fort Worth, Texas. View a video ...
Click to open image viewer. Short takeoff/vertical landing variant to be used by U.S. Air Force, U.S. Marines and the United Kingdom, equipped with a shaft-driven lift fan propulsion system which ...