F135 Team Delivers F135 STOVL Propulsion System to Lockheed Martin

Posted at: Sat Dec 1st, 2007

EAST HARTFORD, Conn., Nov. 28, 2007 – Pratt & Whitney has delivered the first F135 short-takeoff/vertical-landing (STOVL) propulsion system including the Rolls-Royce Lift System to Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth, Texas. The propulsion system will support airframe and engine interface evaluatio...

New C-130J radar warning receiver put to test

Posted at: Sat Dec 1st, 2007

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- The 418th Flight Test Squadron and 772nd Test Squadron recently began testing the ALR-56M radar warning receiver in the C-130J Hercules at the Benefield Anechoic Facility here. The purpose of the tests is to ensure deficiencies identified in earlier ...

General focuses on mission, future of AWACS

Posted at: Sat Dec 1st, 2007

- HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. -- The E-3 Airborne Early Warning and Control System and its crews have led the way into battle many times in the past and are achieving combat excellence today, the commander of the nation's only AWACS flying wing said her...