Lockheed Martin is shooting for a flight in full vertical mode for the Marine Corps F-35 Joint Strike Fighter short-take-off, vertical-landing test aircraft by the end of this month, company officials told reporters today. BF-1, the STOVL test aircraft that was delivered to Naval Air Station Patuxent River, MD, late last year, has accumulated 32 flights and completed at least four flights in partial STOVL mode, leaving it seven flights short of full vertical lift, Dan Crowley, Lockheed Martin executive...
