Lockheed Flies F-35 for High-Angle Attack Test
Lockheed Martin‘s F35 fighter jet recently completed a series of high-angle-of-attack tests to evaluate the plane’s ability to fly beyond the positive and negative limits of control. The conventional takeoff-and-landing F-35A variant initially flew in a clean-wing configuration and then with external pylons, missiles and open weapon bay doors, Lockheed said Thursday. In Fall 2012, [...]
Lockheed Martin has completed the latest test flight for the F-35 joint strike fighter in order to test Northrop Grumman‘s multifunction advanced data link waveform. The MADL is part of an eight-year development effort to provide a high-data rate directional communications link for the fifth-generation aircraft, according to a Northrop statement. Northrop Grumman Information Systems Defense [...]
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A U.S. Air Force base in Nevada has received its first three Lockheed Martin-built F-35 conventional takeoff and landing jets for testing, with a total of 12 jets to be assigned to the squadron by 2019. Nellis’ 422 Test and Evaluation Squadron of the 53rd Test and Evaluation Group will test and evaluate the jets, [...]
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Lockheed Martin has produced a second F-35 for the Netherlands in its F-35 production facility, according to a company statement. The F-35 manufacturer announced Thursday that its rollout of the new jet is “the latest step in the production process leading to its eventual assignment at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. later this summer.” The [...]
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Raytheon is building a bomb intended for all three U.S. variants of the Lockheed Martin-made F-35 fighter jet, Raytheon said Tuesday. The company said the GBU-53/B Small Diameter Bomb is designed for the Air Force‘s F-35A, Marine Corps‘ F-35B and the Navy‘s F-35C jets. Other aircraft such as the Air Force’s F/A-22, F-15E and F-16C/D [...]
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Lockheed Martin delivered 30 F-35 aircraft in 2012, according to a company statement. “In 2013 as we begin flight test of the Block 2B mission system software which will ultimately provide the initial war-fighting capability the Marines need for their initial operational capability,” said Orlando Carvalho, Lockheed F-35 executive vice president and general manager. The 30 aircraft delivered in [...]
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All three variants of Lockheed Martin’s F-35 fighter jet recorded over 5,000 flight hours in November, the company announced Monday. Since the program’s start in December 2006, both past and present models of the F-35 have been flown 3,464 times. That figure includes 91 from the original test model, 2,510 from system development and demonstration [...]
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Lockheed Building Six Marine Corps F-35 Simulators; Dwight DeJong Comments
October 18, 2012 No CommentLockheed Martin has finished installing two F-35 mission simulators at a Marine Corps station in Arizona and plans to build six simulators. The company said the Yuma-based air station will house the first operational F-35 squadrons worldwide for the branch. Pilots at Yuma will be able to use the simulators later this year, the company [...]
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The U.S. Air Force has started the operational utility evaluation phase of testing on the Lockheed Martin-made F-35 fighter jet. From Monday, the branch said two 33rd Fighter Wing pilots at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. and two Air Force test pilots will conduct the 65-day review of the F-35′s conventional takeoff and landing version. [...]
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