What’s Canada Buying? January 23, 2013
- Even MOAR LAV III upgrade news, this time for Carignan, Quebec!
- F-35 Tug o’ War (1) Glass is half full …. “For the first time, two Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] F-35C Lightning II carrier variant test aircraft refueled together with a Lockheed Martin KC-130 Hercules in the sky above Patuxent River, Md. recently. The CV aircraft, known as CF-1 and CF-2, completed the milestone as part of an F-35 flight test program that will accomplish more than 1,000 flights in 2013 ….”
- F-35 Tug o’ War (2) …. and glass is half empty “Pentagon and industry officials worked through the weekend to determine what caused the failure of a fuel line on the Marine Corps version of Lockheed Martin Corp’s s (LMT) F-35 fighter jet that prompted the plane’s grounding on Friday. A spokesman for Pratt & Whitney, a unit of United Technologies Corp (UTX) that builds the engines for the jets, said those involved included officials from Stratoflex, a unit of Parker Hannifin Corp (PH) that built the fuel line. No comment was immediately available from Stratoflex ….”
Written by milnewsca
23 January 13 at 12:15
Posted in F-35 Fracas, What's Canada Buying?
