During the first Marine Corps Joint Strike Fighter operational test, two major fuel system failures occurred, resulting in one of the jets being replaced with another land-based aircraft, the Pentagon's top weapons tester revealed in a recent report. A fuel boost pump and high-level float valve caused the two failures. The poor fuel system reliability was due to the challenging nature of a shipboard environment, according to the latest annual report from J. Michael Gilmore, the Pentagon's director of operational...
