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On Sunday, a Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II jet suffered a “mishap” during a flight causing the pilot to eject himself to safety somewhere near the Air Force base, Joint Base Charleston ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A Marine investigation blamed the pilot of an advanced fighter jet for ejecting from the aircraft when he didn’t need to, causing the F-35 to fly unmanned for 11 minutes ...
The search for a missing F-35 stealth fighter jet turned to a recovery mission Tuesday after authorities located a debris field in South Carolina, capping an unusual saga that drew global attention.
A U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning II in flight. Operations of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II family began in 1995 with the Joint Strike Fighter program.Since its first flight in 2006, the aircraft has faced substantial controversy, shortages in its research and development supply, [1] and safety concerns due to incidents. [2]
US Navy Aircraft missing on a flight out of NAS Pensacola. [106] November 23, 1943: Douglas C-47 Skytrain (41-18675) 25: Weather (suspected) Nakety Bay, New Caledonia USAAF aircraft took off from Tontouta Airport, bound for Espiritu Santo. Radio contact established at 08:10, but aircraft failed to respond an hour later.
The U.S. military is hunting for an $80 million F-35 fighter jet after a pilot ejected from the military aircraft near Charleston, S.C., on Sunday. Officials at Joint Base Charleston said they ...
The F-35 was the product of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program, which was the merger of various combat aircraft programs from the 1980s and 1990s. One progenitor program was the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Advanced Short Take-Off/Vertical Landing (ASTOVL) which ran from 1983 to 1994; ASTOVL aimed to develop a Harrier jump jet replacement for the U.S. Marine Corps ...
A US Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II. Missing: one F-35 fighter jet. The U.S. military is looking for an F-35 that kept flying after its pilot ejected over South Carolina on Sunday.