PICTURES: Lockheed F-35 JSF gets PW F135 engine fitting

Posted on: Feb. 10th, 2006 || Source: flightinternational.com | E-mail Article | Print Article

Lockheed Martin has conducted a fit test of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter's (JSF) Pratt and Whitney F135 turbofan engine, as the US Department of Defense appears to have killed off the aircraft’s alternate F136 power plant being developed by General Electric and Rolls-Royce.

Conducted on Lockheed’s Fort Worth assembly line in Texas in early February, the successful fit test (pictured below) comes as a precursor to the F135’s formal integration with the JSF programme’s first system development and demonstration (SDD) phase aircraft in mid-February.

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