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Marine Corps’ Joint Strike Fighter Expected To Make First Flight This Month

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Monday, June 2nd, 2008

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By Emelie Rutehrford The Marine Corps' Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) variant should fly for the first time in conventional mode this month and make its maiden short-take-off-and-vertical-landing (STOVL) flight around the first of the year, according to airframe builder Lockheed Martin [LMT]. The F-35B STOVL variant of the stealth fighter is expected to embark on its first flight "probably within the next week or so," Lockheed Martin spokesman John Smith said last Friday, though a specific date had not been…

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