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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]
An F-35B jet en route to California from Fort Worth crashed in New Mexico on Tuesday after stopping to refuel at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque.. Lockheed Martin, which produces the ...
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 ...
The incident occurred around 4 p.m. as an F-35B combat aircraft made contact with a KC-130J, which is a tanker, "during an air-to-air refueling evolution," the Marine Corps Air Station Yuma said ...
WILLIAMSBURG COUNTY, S.C. (WCBD) – The United States Marine Corps has completed its investigation into an F-35B Lightning II aircraft that crashed into the woods in Williamsburg County last year.
A KC-135 Stratotanker refuels an F-16 Fighting Falcon using a flying boom. Aerial refueling (), or aerial refuelling (), also referred to as air refueling, in-flight refueling (IFR), air-to-air refueling (AAR), and tanking, is the process of transferring aviation fuel from one aircraft (the tanker) to another (the receiver) while both aircraft are in flight.
Military investigators are facing questions about why an F-35 stealth fighter jet went missing for more than 24 hours. ... from the plane, but experts and former F-35 pilots said such a decision ...
The crash of an F-35B Joint Strike Fighter aircraft in South Carolina over the weekend has raised numerous questions about what prompted the pilot to eject and how the $100 million warplane was ...