US Navy test pilot Cdr. Christian Sewell flies F-35C CF-5 at high-g in afterburner and with an asymmetric weapon load during a test mission from NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, in June 2015.
Photo by Dane Wiedmann
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F-35C Sea Trials Aboard USS Eisenhower
Lt. Chris “TJ” Karapostoles, an F-35 Lightning II test pilot from the F-35 Pax River Integrated Test Force (ITF), is catapulted from the flight deck of USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69). Two F-35Cs assigned to the Salty Dogs of Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 23 are conducting the second phase of F-35 carrier suitability and integration developmental testing (DT-II) at sea. Learn more: bit.ly/1Oe953l (U.S. Navy photo courtesy Lockheed Martin photo by Andy Wolfe)
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An F-15 Eagle from Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C., sits on the flightline before an early morning training sortie Sept. 17, 2015, at
Tyndall AFB, Fla. The unit traveled to Tyndall AFB to participate in the Combat Archer exercise, a weapons system evaluation program designed to test the effectiveness of our Airmen and air-to-air weapon system capability of combat aircraft. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Master Sgt. Beth Holliker)
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First JSOW Test
Lockheed Martin test pilot Dan Levin, flying F-35C test aircraft CF-01, conducted the first captive carry Lightning II test mission with AGM-154 Joint Standoff Missiles, or JSOW, in the internal weapon bays on the range near NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, on 27 August 2015. The AGM-154 is a 1,000-pound precision air-to-surface missile that can carry several different weapon packages. The weapon’s standoff range of twelve to sixty-three nautical miles allows the strike aircraft to remain outside the threat envelopes of enemy point defenses while effectively engaging and destroying targets.
Photo by Dane Wiedmann
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A P-8A Poseidon assigned to Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 20 completed the first dynamic stores release testing of four Harpoon shapes in January 2013. (U.S. Navy photo)
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Northrop should have shrunk the YF-23 design into a single engine for the JSF contest.
McDD tried something similar…
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