An F-35 Lightning II has endured extreme weather temperatures to
certify the capability of the Joint Strike Fighter to deploy to any
place of the world.
An F-35B, a STOVL (Short Take Off Vertical Landing) variant
of the Joint Strike Fighter jet, from the F-35 Patuxent River
Integrated Test Force in Maryland has undergone extreme weather testing
at the U.S. Air Force 96th Test Wing’s McKinley Climatic Laboratory
located at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida according to a release by
Lockheed Martin.
The testing is aimed to validate the capability of the plane to operate in the meteorological conditions representative of all the locations from which the aircraft is going to operate: from the Australian Outback and the U.S. deserts, to the Arctic Circle, above Canada and Norway.
The F-35B has been ferried to Eglin AFB in September 2014 and it is expected to remain at the airbase in Florida until March 2015: a six month assessment of the Joint Strike Fighter’s performance in wind, solar radiation, fog, humidity, rain intrusion/ingestion, freezing rain, icing cloud, icing build-up, vortex icing and snow.
The testing is aimed to validate the capability of the plane to operate in the meteorological conditions representative of all the locations from which the aircraft is going to operate: from the Australian Outback and the U.S. deserts, to the Arctic Circle, above Canada and Norway.
The F-35B has been ferried to Eglin AFB in September 2014 and it is expected to remain at the airbase in Florida until March 2015: a six month assessment of the Joint Strike Fighter’s performance in wind, solar radiation, fog, humidity, rain intrusion/ingestion, freezing rain, icing cloud, icing build-up, vortex icing and snow.
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