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Saturday, June 25, 2011

F-35s resume flight ops after software glitch

F-35 Lightning IIFlying operations for the Navy’s Lockheed Martin F-35C Joint Strike Fighter test program resumed Thursday after a six-day suspension to fix a software problem.

The aircraft were grounded June 17 when engineers at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Md., discovered a “logic fault” that could have prevented the proper action of aircraft control surfaces — the flaps, rudders and other moveable elements that maneuver the plane through the air.

The Navy stressed that no actual fault took place on any aircraft either in the air or on the ground.

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