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• F-35 moves by stealth

  
  Sky Talk — Authority: 434
  An F-35 disguised as an Amazonian bluebird was spotted on the road near Rendon, TX on Sunday as it tried to move quietly through the countryside without being spotted. This, as you sharp airplane aficionados can quickly tell by the folded wing tips, is an F-35C -- the Navy carrier variant. Lockheed Martin folks tell ...
  11 hours ago

• GE F136 engine issues update

  
  Sky Talk — Authority: 434
  General Electric spokesman Rick Kennedy sent us a response about the problems with the F136 engine that we reported yesterday. The problem with the engine, the alternate engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, was raising eyebrows since Congress has pushed hard to keep development of the second engine alive over ...
  6 days ago

• Troubles for GE with F136 engine

  
  Sky Talk — Authority: 434
  Colin Clark has an interesting post on DoD Buzz today that reports of troubles with the General Electric/Rolls Royce F136 engines are causing consternation in Washington. The F136 is the second engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, which Congress has repeatedly funded work on against the wishes of the Department ...
  1 week ago

• Pentagon official says F-35 cost study is pessimistic

  
  Sky Talk — Authority: 434
  Tony Capaccio and Gopal Ratnam at Bloomberg News just filed this from Washington. The Pentagon now acknowledges that an analysis by its own team of experts says development of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will take longer and cost more than anticipated. As reported on SkyTalk  and in the Star-Telegram last ...
  1 week ago

• F-35: Wonder plane of future or boondoggle?

  
  Sky Talk — Authority: 434
  Winslow Wheeler and Pierre Sprey, apostles of the old Fighter Mafia that gave the world the F-16 Falcon fighter (and the F/A-18 Hornet as a side effect) and the A-10 Warthog, have written a piece on Huffington Post   today questioning the real usefulness and affordability of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Its ...
  1 week ago

• Lockheed wooing S. Korea to buy F-35

  
  Sky Talk — Authority: 434
  Steve Trimble, very good aviation reporter for Flight Global, posts on his Dew Line blog today that Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Air Force are in South Korea trying to win hearts, minds and orders for the F-35. Boeing is also working to convince the South Koreans that its F-15SE Silent Eagle (see photo), a modified ...
  1 week ago

• Pundit: JSF cost estimates too high, low blow

  
  Sky Talk — Authority: 434
  As we reported here and in the Star-Telegram  on Saturday, a published report last week said a special Pentagon cost evaluation team remains pessimistic about further delays and rising costs on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter development program. Now Loren Thompson, defense analyst with the Lexington Institute and ...
  1 week ago

• Brits cooling on F-35 buys?

  
  Sky Talk — Authority: 434
  An interesting story out of the United Kingdom over the weekend suggests that the Royal Navy has decided to outfit only one of its two new carriers with the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, a move that would result in dramatically fewer F-35 purchases. The story in The Sunday Times  says the cost of ships and planes has ...
  2 weeks ago

• Souths gonna rise again -- to help sell Airbus tankers

  
  Sky Talk — Authority: 434
  Boeing and the state of Washington better look out. The South is ganging up on them. The governors of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, Republicans all, today announced "the launch of The Aerospace Alliance,"  a private/public partnership that aims to "establish the Gulf Coast  and surrounding region as a world ...
  2 weeks ago

• That didnt take long - F35 cost report reaction

  
  Sky Talk — Authority: 434
  In the wake of a report Friday that a Pentagon cost estimating team says the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter development program is behind schedule and will cost billions more to complete comes this  report quoting stealthy (anonymous) congressional sources expressing outrage and consternation. The pertinent part is this ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lockheed: F-35 cost, schedule predictions are too pessimistic

  
  Sky Talk — Authority: 434
  Lockheed Martin has issued a response to our earlier post on the story saying a Pentagon review finds the F-35 program continues to run behind schedule and will require billion of dollars more to complete development. Lockheed, as it has previously, says the Pentagons cost review team is just too darn pessimistic. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Report: Pace of JSF work lagging, costs to rise by billions

  
  Sky Talk — Authority: 434
  A report today from  InsideDefense.com (subscription required) says a Pentagon review panel will soon report that progress on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is still lagging well behind schedule and completing development of the next generation combat aircraft will take longer and cost billions more than previously ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lockheed to South Korea: Buy planes, get work

  
  Sky Talk — Authority: 434
  Aviation Week is reporting that Lockheed Martin has told South Korea that its aviation industry could get some production work on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter if it orders jets. The result could be less work for Lockheed or some of its U.S. suppliers. Heres the key excerpt:  As production builds up turning out ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Osprey video -- fair, balanced and critical

  
  Sky Talk — Authority: 434
  Aviation Week has posted a short, but fact-filled video on the V-22 Osprey that is full of hard information about the aircrafts performance in Iraq. Operating costs are twice what was expected, more than $11,000 an hour, according to this report. Mission capable rates -- the percentage of aircraft that are ready to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Marines to deploy Ospreys to Afghanistan soon

  
  Sky Talk — Authority: 434
  Defense Secretary Robert Gates has given the Marines approval to deploy a squadron of V-22 Ospreys to Afghanistan beginning next month to support the Marines combat operations in the southern part of that country. That word comes from The Hill, a Washington political publication. No word yet on how the Ospreys will ...
  2 weeks ago

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