Analysis and testing by Pratt & Whitney has validated a redesigned third-stage turbine blade for the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter's F135 powerplant. But first flight of the F-35B ...

F-35 Lightning fighter jets have conducted their first night flying trials off the United Kingdom’s largest warship, HMS Queen Elizabeth. The aircraft carrier, which first landed F-35 Lightning jets ...

The US Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM) shared images of a fifth-generation stealth fighter from Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 242 (VMFA-242) “Bats” landing on the flight deck of LHA-7 on social ...

PATUXENT RIVER, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BAE Systems’ test pilot Graham “GT” Tomlinson has taken to the skies and successfully completed the first ever vertical landing of the short take off vertical ...

Four months after completing the first vertical landing, the Lockheed Martin F-35B flight test fleet also has surpassed the sound barrier. A 10 June test flight flown by US Marine Corps Lt Col Matt ...

Lockheed Martin has flown the first short-take-off-and-vertical-landing (STOVL) F-35B, in conventional-take-off (CTOL) mode, clearing the way for funding to be released for production of the first six ...

The Cavour aircraft carrier will carry out F-35B STOVL (Short Take Off Vertical Landing) qualification off the U.S. East Coast. According to journalist Xavier Vavasseur, the imminent trials were ...

types will be able to learn a lot and test as well with whatever new systems we will launch from either vessel that’s envisioned with the LCS program in the mission packages. In the long term, I ...

Lockheed Martin's X-35B Joint Strike Fighter STOVL aircraft made its first conversion from conventional wingborne to Short Takeoff and Landing mode and its first supersonic flight July 9, company ...

The first Italian-build Short Take-Off/Vertical Landing (STOVL) F-35B Lightning II aircraft was delivered to the Italian Ministry of Defense and assigned to the Italian Navy at the Cameri Final ...

The Japanese Ministry of Defense announced formally its decision to select the U.S. F-35B stealth fighter as the country’s short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) aircraft. The decision was ...