Tag: Edwards AFB

An F-35A completed the first in-flight weapons release of a 2,000 pound GBU-31 BLU-109 Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) over the China Lake test range yesterday, October 16, 2012.

A Spitfire visiting Edwards AFB for the "Battle of Britain Night", celebrated by the RAF F-35 test and evaluation unit at the base. The event brought the F-35 Lightning II together with the World War II era Spitfire from the Commemorative Air Force display team for a rare photo op. Lockheed Martin photo by Matthew Short

The F-35 program accumulated 114 flight tests and achieved 773 test points this year, representing roughly 10 percent of the System Development and Demonstration (SDD) flight test plan for 2012

A new X-Plane designed and developed by Lockheed Martin Skunk Works is expected to fly this year, exploring new wing designs leading to the future development of slender, lightweight, high-aspect-ratio wings for use with high flying UAVs.

Above: F-35 AF-1 and AF-2 Arrived at Edwards Air Force Base in May 2010. The F-35A (CTOL) variant is 66 flights ahead of the planned...

The Euro Hawk unmanned aircraft system (UAS), built by Northrop Grumman Corporation and EADS Defence & Security, successfully completed its first flight June 29....

Laser Packed 747 Prepares for Firing Demonstration The Boeing Company , industry teammates and the U.S.Missile Defense Agency have begun Airborne Laser (ABL) flight tests with the entire...

The US Air Force began integration testing of the F-22A Raptor and the GBU-39/B Small-Diameter Bomb (SDB). Testing is conducted since February 2007 by the 411th Flight...