A federal district court in California on Nov. 2 granted Lockheed Martin’s motion to transfer an F-22 lawsuit filed in 2007 by a former employee to a district court in Atlanta, close to the company’s F-22 assembly facility in northern Georgia. Darrol Olsen, a stealth engineer who Lockheed fired in 1999, alleges that the company knowingly used “defective” stealth coatings on the F-22 in the late 1990s. He wants the company to pay the government back $50 million per F-22 built, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. A Lockheed spokesman told the Daily Report Thursday that the company requested the move since northern Georgia is “where the relevant documents and witnesses are located.” Lockheed has not yet filed its answer to this lawsuit, but “does not believe there is any merit to the allegations and will vigorously defend this matter in court,” he said.
The Air Force displayed all the firepower it has amassed on Okinawa in an unusually diverse show of force this week. IIn a May 6 “Elephant Walk,” Kadena Air Base showcased 24 F-35A Lightning II stealth fighters, eight F-15E Strike Eagles; two U.S. Army Patriot anti-missile batteries near the runway; and…