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 ...

The F-35 Lightning II program recently completed testing on an improved lighting assembly with the KC-135 that will enable the Navy and Marine Corps F-35 variants to refuel behind the tanker at night.

Capt. Andrew "Dojo" Olson, F-35 Demonstration Team pilot and commander flies over the San Francisco Bay during the Fleet Week Airshow Oct. 13, 2019, in San Francisco, Calif. (Senior Airman Alexander ...

Previously unseen footage of the F-35 in flight testing lays bare an important fact: the work of test pilots is dangerous. A video of a F-35 Joint Strike Fighter flight safety seminar shows two ...

The Lockheed Martin F-35 has been cleared to resume ground operations, but no flight tests are allowed until safety investigators determine what caused a control valve to malfunction on 2 August. The ...

Lockheed Martin's three F-35 Lightning II strike fighter variants have completed what the company called the most comprehensive flight test program in aviation history. On April 11 at US Naval Air ...

The program passes an important milestone, but it's no reason to buy Lockheed Martin stock. Program officials were understandably cheery in announcing the completion of the last test flight in what is ...

The F-35 program office’s rush to make an August test deadline will increase risks yet still leave the effort well behind schedule, the Pentagon’s top weapons tester said in a report released today.