The three MCAS Yuma, Calif.-based F-35Bs that will perform at the Royal International Air Tattoo and Farnborough Airshow in Britain in July will transit through NAS Patuxent River, Md., not MCAS Beaufort, S.C., as we reported on June 11. Also, their airshow flight demonstrations will not include a vertical takeoff. We’ve corrected our original entry.
Raytheon, a division of defense giant RTX, recently announced a multiyear deal with the Pentagon to increase annual production of the Air Force’s primary dogfighting missile by more than 50 percent from two years ago.


