President Obama flies down under Air Force One is probably the world’s most famous aircraft – and the man on board has a certain prominence of his own – so it stands to reason that when the heavily customised blueand- white 747 tacks toward your local airport, it’s coming with a lot of baggage. As

Production pressures for the F-35 “There’s a lot happening all at once, there’s testing going on, the training is standing up, the first operational base is standing up – there’s a lot going on. ” So remarked Lockheed Martin’s Tom Burbage, executive vice president and general manager of the F-35 program during a brief with

Commercial Airbus Sharklets take to the skies This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the rest of this article, please login. Username or Email Password Forgot password? Keep me signed in on this device. If you check this box before you log in, you won’t have

“The [US] Department [of Defense] began the F-35 program confident that the benefits from a new generation of advanced design and simulation tools would provide a more mature system earlier in the test program than previously experienced in fighter development programs,” observes a Pentagon review into the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program. “It was this