Pratt & Whitney this week will deliver the first production F135 engine for the Marine Corps' short take-off, vertical-landing variant of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, a company official said today. “This week we will deliver the first STOVL engine,” Bennett Croswell, vice-president for the F135 and F119 engine programs, said in a roundtable with reporters. “Again, the STOVL engine is highly common with the [Air Force and Navy variants], so that won't be much of a surprise.” However, he...
