Boeing officials do not expect a first flight of the company's Joint Strike Fighter demonstrator by spring as originally planned due to the impact of a labor strike by the company's engineers, a Boeing spokesman said yesterday. Boeing is competing against Lockheed Martin to build the tri-service fighter, a program potentially worth billions. "We are experiencing some software development delays and there are also delays associated with the first flight," Mike Tull, Boeing's JSF spokesman, told InsideDefense.com yesterday. "We were...
