Jet engine supplier Pratt and Whitney confirmed yesterday that it stopped production of F135 engines slated for the F-35 Lightning II for a three-week period in May of 2014 after an issue with a ...
Alongside this effort, Pratt & Whitney have enhanced its monitoring and oversight and invested $100m in a quality improvement plan to enhance engine component manufacturing processes. "F-35 ...
The F-35 is having significant problems with one of its most important components: the engine. According to reports from both the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the Department of ...
The Pentagon’s F-35 fighter jet, a revenue mainstay for manufacturer Lockheed Martin Corp. and Connecticut-based engine maker Pratt & Whitney, is facing pushback over its $1.7 trillion lifetime ...
The military's F-35 Lightning II has not had an easy road these past several years. The most recent problem for the fifth-generation fighter came in late June, when an engine fire broke out on an ...
The single-engine, single-seat F-35 will be manufactured in three versions: a conventional-takeoff-and-landing (CTOL) variant for the U.S. Air Force, an aircraft-carrier version (CV) for the U.S ...
The F-35 lacks the F-22’s maneuverability, despite also having thrust vectoring engines. But the less powerful, one-engine F-35 doesn’t have the thrust-to-weight of the F-22. The twin-engine ...
The F-35 will replace AV-8B Harrier IIs in the Marine ... The F-35B has a Lift Fan just behind the cockpit and an engine that can swivel 90 degrees when in short takeoff/vertical landing mode.
35-foot-wide fighter jet, with an engine that generates 43,000 pounds of thrust, vanish? You don't. There's no black magic that exists to make something that big disappear. The F-35A Lightning II ...
Those technical upgrades necessitate improvements to the F135 engine that powers the aircraft. The latest F-35 upgrade program has faced technical challenges. DOD’s 2023 Selected Acquisition ...
BEIRUT — Turkish firm Baykar has been approved by the Italian government to buy Italian aviation giant Piaggio Aerospace in a move that the company says will expand its reach in the European Union.