F-35 info from AIN Video

July 1, 2016

View in browser   •   Subscribe   •   Email Editor   •   AINonline.com

Spotlight on F-35 AIN’s new F-35 microsite has comprehensive news and information about the next-generation Joint Strike Fighter. Click here for news updates, background information, videos and images covering every aspect of the global F-35 program as the aircraft prepares to appear at the Farnborough International Airshow in July.

F-35s Cross The Atlantic Ready for UK Show Debuts Five Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II stealth fighters are making a transatlantic crossing this week, before their participation at two major UK airshows. However, the type’s European debut came last month, when two F-35As of the Royal Netherlands Air Force currently based at Edwards AFB conducted a deployment trial and appeared at the air arm’s annual airshow at Leeuwarden. The trips come two years after an engine failure stymied an attempt to debut the jet internationally. Three F-35B STOVL versions flew from MCAS Beaufort, S.C., to RAF Fairford on June 29 with refueling from two U.S. Air Force KC-10A Extenders. Two were from the Beaufort-based U.S. Marine Corps training squadron VMFAT-101 and the third was a UK Royal Air Force operational test and evaluation example based at Edwards. Their crossing was delayed 48 hours by the unserviceability of one of the KC-10s. They were being followed today by two U.S. Air Force F-35A CTOL versions from the 56th Tactical Fighter Wing at Luke AFB, departing from McGuire AFB, NJ. Read More The F-35 Fighter Packs a Punch with a Full Array of Weapons Options See how the weapons system flexibility of the F-35 allows its payload to be tailored specifically to any mission requirement. Watch Video AIN Defense Perspective is a publication of The Convention News Co., Inc., 214 Franklin Avenue, Midland Park, NJ 07432. Copyright 2016. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission from The Convention News Co., Inc., is strictly prohibited.