The third Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II short takeoff/vertical landing test aircraft takes off from Fort Worth, Texas, on Feb. 17 en route to its primary test site at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. The stealth fighter joined two other F-35Bs at Patuxent River following a 3-hour and 10-minute flight.
Video: China’s Stealth Jet Takes to the Air – First Flight of the J-20 Black Eagle
Video via Alert5 (blog | twitter) who, along with Kursed, is doing a great job keeping up with J-20 developments. As I’ve said on Twitter, the viral campaign for this...
Missile Defense Video: Lockheed Martin Successfully Tests Multiple Kill Vehicle-L
Press Release: Lockheed Martin announced today that its team successfully conducted a free-flight hover test of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s Multiple Kill Vehicle-L. Conducted Dec. 2 at the National...
Hillary Clinton Self-Destructs: Her Thoughts on Barack Obama, Martin Luther King, and LBJ
Yesterday I though Hillary would regroup after New Hampshire. I’m have my doubts after reading The Caucus this morning: As they barnstorm through New Hampshire, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and...
Flying the F-35 Lightning
W. Thomas Smith Jr. talks to Lockheed Martin’s chief test pilot Jon Beesley: “This is the plane that — because of its stealth — will be able to go in...
Video: Flying Home
Jesse from Red Arrows in Iraq recorded a pretty funny pre-flight briefing as they were heading home from Iraq. Jesse updates: That video was taken after we had stopped in...
[...] on Capitol Hill recently raised some concerns about the development of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Commandant of the Marine Corps, General James Conway, assured them that it was on schedule. Sgt [...]