Business Insider recently sat down with a test pilot for the F-35 stealth fighter jet. She explained what it was like to jump from flying older F-16s to the fifth-generation aircraft. The biggest ...

Hey ya'll, I'm down in Florida covering the Air Force Association's mid-winter conference for DoDBuzz so I haven't been able to post a ton on DT. Lockheed just issued its latest update of F-35 flight ...

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – F-35 critics often point to the Pentagon's decision to start building the fifth-generation fighter before design and testing is complete as the root of the program's ...

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, California—With deliveries of new F-35s on hold while bugs are worked out of a planned upgrade, the plane’s lead test squadron is doing its part to spot problems where the new ...

The Lightning II that crashed on Tuesday was one of very few F-35 developmental test aircraft, exacerbating a shortage that has in the past led to program delays. The aircraft, which was en route from ...

The F-35 has successfully tested its onboard cannon for the first time. On June 9, an F-35A shot its first salvos from its four-barrel GAU-22/A Gatling gun. The gun fires 25-millimeter rounds that can ...

According to a report from the Project on Government Oversight, the F-35 Lightning II test fleet was only 8.7% fully mission capable in June. The F-35 has been plagued with problems, including issues ...

Previously unseen footage of the F-35 in flight testing lays bare an important fact: the work of test pilots is dangerous. A video of a F-35 Joint Strike Fighter flight safety seminar shows two ...

AF-2 First Aerial Gun Fire 10/30/2015. Pilot Maj Charles Trickey, Flt 527 Test 778. Test was conducted over China Lake Weapon Range, California. WASHINGTON — For the first time, a US Air Force F-35 ...

When a single F-35 used sensors, on-board computers and targeting systems to find, track and destroy two airborne drones at the same time with air-to-air missiles, the emerging 5th Gen fighter ...

Jon Beesley remembers being in the cockpit as if it were yesterday. The 66-year-old retired Lockheed Martin test pilot can still see the thousands of people watching as he taxied the F-35 down a ...