Every time a commercial plane takes to the air, it enters a world pervaded by unseen forces, none more dramatic than lightning.

Lockheed Martin and the F-35 Pax River ITF completed an initial flight test integrating the AGM-158C LRASM onto the F-35B Lightning II, following the first test on the F-35C in September 2024.

On June 6, 1944, the Lockheed XP-58 Chain Lightning made its first flight. Designed as a long-range fighter to improve on the ...

The F-35B Lightning ... STOVL aircraft are also stationed at the first operational F-35 base, Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Ariz., and are completing flight test at Naval Air Station Patuxent ...

The purpose of the D-JOINTS project was to put these technologies to the test, validate their effectiveness ... joints that can be embedded in aircraft panels and structures to protect aircraft from ...

CF-1 will be used in future emergency recovery systems testing by the Prototype, Manufacturing and Test Department of the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division. A CH-53K King Stallion heavy ...

The Lightning II that crashed on Tuesday was one of very few F-35 developmental test aircraft, exacerbating a shortage that has in the past led to program delays. The aircraft, which was en route ...

(Universal Hydrogen Photo) Universal Hydrogen says its hydrogen-fueled test aircraft has won ... modified De Havilland Dash 8-300 aircraft, nicknamed “Lightning McClean.” ...

Where the Supermarine Spitfire of WWII legend took only three years to go into service, the F-35 Lightning II took ... the Variable In-flight Simulation Test Aircraft (VISTA) is being used at ...

We took a brief look at the process through a heavily redacted test report obtained by ... in environments without much anti-aircraft fire. The F-35 Lightning II is a multirole fighter, meaning ...

RoyalNavy Lt Cmdr Baker – a test pilot on exchange with ... Lightning II short takeoff and vertical landing aircraft operations,” the F-35 Lightning II Pax River Integrated Test Force (PAX ...