Retired Lockheed Martin test pilot Jon Beesley was back in Fort Worth this month to celebrate the first flight of the F-35. Beesley flew the maiden flight of the F-35 on Dec. 15, 2006.
Category: Navy
461 FLTS brought all 3 F-35 variants together to hunt for GBADS
At Edwards Air Force Base, the 461st Flight Test Squadron is employing all three variants of the F-35 to test whether each variant’s on board Multifunction Advanced Data Link (MADL) could talk to each other during a hunt for Ground Based Air Defense System.
By U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Katerina Slivinske [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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German Navy F-124 frigates getting new air defense radars
The German Ministry of Defense has chosen a supplier of new air defense radars for its three F-124 Sachsen-class frigates.
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By Bundeswehr-Fotos (originally posted to Flickr as Fregattee SACHSEN) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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Maiden flight of German Navy NH90 Sea Lion
Airbus Helicopters flew the first of 18 NH90 Sea Lion ordered by the German Navy on Dec. 8 in Donauwörth.
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Pentagon’s chief weapons tester said his colleagues lied about the F-35 program
Dr. J. Michael Gilmore, the Pentagon’s Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, said in a memo to Frank Kendall, the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, that a draft response to Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain had contained misleading information.
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By Staff Sgt. Madelyn Brown [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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