Happy humpday. Make the last few hours of the workday go by faster by watching this brand new video showing a low-level high speed pass by an carrier variant F-35C Joint Strike Fighter. It’s the first time I’ve seen a video of the jet making an always thrilling fast flyby. Enjoy.
JSF Watch
Well, it’s Monday. To start things off nice and easy, let’s start with this video of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter refueling from a KC-135 at night for the first time. Welcome back to work, everyone. Click through the jump for the video.
Here’s F-35 Joint Strike Figther-maker Lockheed Martin’s updated response to yesterday’s news that the cost to purchase and sustain the Pentagon’s fleet of 2,443 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters over the next five decades has grown to $1.45 trillion. It seems they got their dollar amounts wrong in the first response. Today, the Office of the […]
That awesome picture shows the first ever nighttime air-to-air refueling performed by the F-35 Joint Strike Figther. The image shows F-35A AF-4 flying just behind a KC-135 Stratotanker in the skies around Edwards Air Force Base, California during a three hour flight to qualify the JSF to tank from the KC-135 at night.
Doh! A fuel leak!? From sister site DoDBuzz: The Air Force’s F-35s at Eglin AFB were cleared to fly just as the brass said they’d be at the winter AFA meeting, but when it actually happened there was a little hitch. The debut flight was supposed to last 90 minutes, but the pilot turned back after […]
