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By Jamal Sutter, 413th Flight Test Group Public Affairs / Published April 16, 2021 An F-35A Lightning II fighter jet assigned to the 421st Fighter Squadron, Hill Air Force Base, Utah, takes off during Red Flag 20-1 at Nellis AFB, Nevada, Feb. 5, 2020. A recent ground test conducted at Nellis proved that Air Force personnel could safely and securely take data output from a flight test instrumentation system and convert the F-35’s data to communicate with mobile applications running on a connected commercial tablet. The test was part of the Fighter Optimization eXperiment (Fo...

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By Garrett Reim2021-04-06T09:06:00+01:00 The sight of an aircraft crashing and burning is for most engineers the stuff of nightmares. But, for engineers developing a new class of unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) called attritable aircraft, such destruction is not likely to elicit more than a shoulder shrug. Attritable aircraft are designed to be thrown out – eventually. Source: Boeing Attritable aircraft require a change in mindset, says Boeing The US Air Force (USAF) believes that by designing and building military UAVs cheap enough it can gain an edge over its adversaries in a war of attritio...

SR-72 Darkstar: The Secret Spy Plane the U.S. Military Wants Back in 2013, Lockheed Martin proposed a follow-up to the SR-71. Fittingly, it was the SR-72, which has also become known as the "Son of the Blackbird," and it was suggested that the vehicle could fly by 2023 – that is unless it has already taken flight. It was over twenty years ago the Lockheed SR-71 "Blackbird" was retired by the United States Air Force, and while surveillance satellites can provide that eye in the sky for intelligence gathering there is still a need for such high flying, ultra-fast aircraft. Such a platform wo...

By Garrett Reim2021-01-29T23:33:00+00:00 Lockheed Martin’s board of directors has elected its president and chief executive James Taiclet to an additional role, chairman of the board, starting 1 March. Former chief executive and current executive chairman Marillyn Hewson plans to retire from the board, the company said on 29 January. Hewson stepped down from her former role as chief executive in June 2020. Source: Lockheed Martin Chief executive James Taiclet and executive chairman Marillyn Hewson “Marillyn provided leadership that helped us to implement a smooth and successful transition...