F-35 flight demonstrator showcases high-tech aviation training at Lenoir Community College

Lenoir Community College’s Aviation Center for Excellence recently gave people a firsthand look at advanced military ...
Dayton Daily News

First female F-35 test pilot completes flight mission

Maj. Rachael Winiecki, 461st Flight Test Squadron F-35 test pilot, and Airman 1st Class Heather Rice, 412th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron crew chief, pose for a photo right after Winiecki landed her F ...
Yahoo

See the US Air Force's 'Franken-bird' F-35 made from wrecked stealth fighters take its first flight

A salvaged F-35 fighter made from two wrecked aircraft is set to return to the US Air Force's fleet. The restoration began in 2023. The jet took its maiden flight in January less than two years later.
The Aviationist

Meteor BVRAAM Nears F-35A Flight Testing

The F-35A completed ground vibration testing and fit checks at Edwards Air Force Base ahead of the beginning of flight testing. The F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) has announced the completion of a ...

From classified test flight to $20 billion contract: The F-47’s rapid rise

The Boeing F-47 reached a $20 billion contract in just five years. Here's how secret flights and digital engineering rewrote ...

There Have Been More Than A Dozen F-35 Lightning II Crashes To Date

Although another F-35 Lightning II crashed during a training flight on Friday, the fifth-generation aircraft is noted for ...
KSL

F-35 fleet hits 1 million flight hours; DOD reevaluating heavy reliance on private contractors

HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Lockheed Martin announced Monday that the global F-35 fleet, the Department of Defense's most advanced fighter, has surpassed 1 million flight hours since beginning operation in ...
insider.si.edu

The F-35 Lightning II from concept to cockpit edited by Jeffrey W. Hamstra, Lockheed Martin Corporation

Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Foreword / Capt. Charles Thomas (Tom) Burbage -- Preface / Jeffrey W. Hamstra -- Chapter 1. F-35 program history : from JAST to IOC / Arthur E ...
Aviation Week

MBDA Meteor Makes Long-Awaited F-35 Test Flight

LONDON—MBDA’s Meteor beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile has been flown on the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter for the first time. A U.S. Marine Corps F-35B from Naval Air Station ...

Why F-35 Squadrons Cannot Reprogram Their Own Mission Data Files Without US Approval

Pulling back the curtain on the Joint Strike Fighter.
Flightglobal

The F-35: More than a fighter jet

U.S. Navy fighter pilot Jeff “Bangs” Fellows was out of munitions – but not out of the fight. In any other fighter jet, he might have had reason to head back to base and wait to see how the training ...
Business Insider

See the US Air Force's 'Franken-bird' F-35 made from wrecked stealth fighters take its first flight

A one-of-a-kind F-35 stealth fighter built from two wrecked aircraft is set to make an unprecedented return to the US Air Force's operational fleet. The so-called "Franken-bird" was restored through a ...