Burbage: New F-35C Tailhook Design To Continue Testing Early Next Year

By Dan Taylor / November 12, 2012 at 5:07 PM
A new tailhook design for the carrier variant of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will undergo testing early next year at Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst in New Jersey, Tom Burbage, head of Lockheed Martin's F-35 program, said last week. Inside the Navy reported earlier this month that the service expects to put a new tailhook configuration for the F-35C through a critical design review at some point this winter as the program seeks to improve a system that was...

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