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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Joint Strike Fighter can resume flight tests

F-35 Lightning IIFaulty maintenance procedures were found to have caused the March 9 in-flight failure of the engine generators aboard an F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft, the program office said last week.

Those procedures have now been revised, and the entire fleet of F-35s has been cleared to resume flight operations.

The problem was revealed when an Air Force F-35A test aircraft, numbered AF-4, suffered a failure of the generators during a test flight from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The test pilot was able to use the backup electrical generator to return safely to base.

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