The Joint Strike Fighter program office expects in December to conduct the first vertical-lift flight of the BF-1, the Marine Corps' short-take-off, vertical-landing (STOVL) F-35 variant test aircraft. The program has repeatedly pushed back the first vertical lift flight of the STOVL aircraft, which at one point was supposed to happen as early as the summer. In August, Inside the Navy reported that minor engineering issues would push first STOVL flight to October, but the program office said today the...
