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.
Facing competition from fast-growing startups, Lockheed Martin is speeding up production of an “affordable, scalable” hypersonic glide body, dubbed the Next Generation Glide Body, the firm said in a June 24 release.