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Fonte ..... "F-35 AL-1: accensione motore" ..... http://www.rid.it/index~phppag,3_id,681.htmlIl 2 giugno il primo F-35 di produzione italiana, AL-1, ha effettuato presso la FACO di Cameri le prove di accensione del motore Pratt & Whitney F-135.
Fra quattro mesi ?Per ulteriori approfondimenti si veda RID 10/15.
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Fonte ..... U.S. DoD ..... http://www.defense.gov/Contracts/Contra ... actID=5556CONTRACTS - NAVY .....
Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a $920,350,132 advance acquisition contract for long lead time, materials, parts, components, and effort for the manufacture and delivery of 94 F-35 Lightning II low rate initial production aircraft.
This contract provides for 78 F-35A aircraft for the Air Force (44), the government of Italy (2), the government of Turkey (2) ; the government of Australia (8); the government of Norway (6); and for various foreign military sales customers (16).
In addition, this contract provides for the procurement of 14 F-35B aircraft for the Marine Corps (9), the government of Britain (3) and the government of Italy (2), as well as 2 F-35C aircraft for the Navy and Marine Corps.
Work will be performed in Fort Worth, Texas (55 percent); El Segundo, California (15 percent); Warton, United Kingdom (10 percent); Orlando, Florida (5 percent); Nashua, New Hampshire (5 percent); Baltimore, Maryland (5 percent); and Cameri, Italy (5 percent), and is expected to be completed in May 2019.
Fiscal 2015 aircraft procurement (Air Force, Marine Corps, and Navy), non-U.S. Department of Defense participant funding, and foreign military sales funds in the amount of $920,350,132 are being obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.
This contract was not competitively procured pursuant to FAR 6.302-1.
This contract combines purchase for Foreign Military Sales program customers ($352,102,228; 38 percent); the Air Force ($227,666,000; 25 percent); non-U.S. Department of Defense participants ($207,086,904; 22 percent); and the Navy/Marine Corps ($133,495,000; 15 percent).
The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity (N00019-15-C-0003).
Fonte ..... "JSF Italian Sustainment Exercise #1 al RSV" .....Si è appena concluso, il primo Italian Sustainment Exercise (ISE) per il velivolo Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), svoltosi presso il Reparto Sperimentale Volo (RSV) di Pratica di Mare.
All'esercitazione, che ha avuto inizio il 25 maggio 2015, hanno partecipato: personale dell'Aeronautica Militare del Comando Logistico (COMLOG), del 1° Reparto Manutenzione Velivoli (RMV) di Cameri, di Amendola e Istrana (32° e 51° Stormo), della Marina Militare Italiana (MM), del Segretariato Generale della Difesa (SEGREDIFESA) e di alcuni Paesi partners del programma JSF (Olanda e Norvegia).
L'evento, il primo di una serie di tre, si è posto come obiettivo principale la graduale integrazione del segmento terrestre del JSF "Autonomic Logistic Information System" (ALIS) nel Sistema Informativo Logistico nazionale per la gestione di Sistemi Complessi (SiLEF).
Fonte ..... "OPINION: After a $100bn spend, it's time for F-35 to deliver" .....On 1 June, Gen Herbert “Hawk” Carlisle, chief of the US Air Force’s Air Combat Command, sounded desperate.
He is concerned that an upgraded electro-optical targeting system and a “Big SAR” mode for the Northrop Grumman APG-81 active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar could drift beyond the Block 4 version of the F-35 that is scheduled to appear in about five years.
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That’s where the story starts to get interesting.
In 2007, Flight International reported (*) that Lockheed had agreed to deliver a “Big SAR” capability with the Block 3 version of the F-35, then scheduled to be available in 2013.
Subsequent delays, however, postponed an initial version of that standard – dubbed Block 3I – to 2016, with the full capability of Block 3F to arrive by the end of 2017.
At the same time, the programme office allowed Lockheed to defer key capabilities, such as the Big SAR mode, to the Block 4 configuration.
MatteF88 ha scritto:Rilasciate un paio di immagini dell'aereo andato a fuoco un anno fa http://theaviationist.com/2015/06/06/f- ... re-images/
Un bel danno..praticamente é diventato una costosissima bruschetta
.With $50M In Damage, Burnt F-35 Likely To Be Stripped For Parts .....
U.S. Air Force Air Education and Training Command (AETC) found that damage to an F-35A that caught fire last year after a catastrophic engine mishap totaled more than $50 million.
With such damage, “It is likely parts will be returned to the F-35 spares inventory as appropriate,” says F-35 Joint Program Office spokesman Joe Dellavedova.
“Other components of the aircraft will be evaluated for potential reuse in other aircraft or training systems.”
The F-35A, part of the 58th Fighter Squadron, caught fire after taxi and before takeoff June 23, 2014, during a training mission at Eglin AFB, Florida.
The pilot safely aborted takeoff and exited the aircraft.
The fire prompted a fleetwide grounding and led to the notorious absence of the F-35B at the Royal International Air Tattoo outside London and Farnborough air show last year.
Basic flying operations were restored, only with G and speed limits, less than one month following the incident.
The fleet is flying normally today.
AETC’s accident investigation validates the findings of the Pentagon and Pratt & Whitney, the F135 engine manufacturer.
The board “found the cause of the mishap was catastrophic engine failure.
The engine failed when the third-stage forward integral arm of a rotor fractured and liberated during takeoff,” AETC says in an announcement.
“Pieces of the failed rotor arm cut through the engine’s fan case, the engine bay, an internal fuel tank and hydraulic and fuel lines before exiting through the aircraft’s upper fuselage.”
Leaking fuel and hydraulic fluid ignited and burned the “rear two thirds of the aircraft,” the announcement says.
Friction caused the integral arm in the third-stage rotor to break.
The fix from Pratt is to “pre-trench” the polyimide foam lining between the stators and knife-edge seal forward of the third-stage integrally bladed rotor.
The mishap occurred because of a low tolerance, causing friction.
The problem had not been seen in earlier jets because they were flown in gradually more complex flight profiles, effectively “burning in” that trench.
The fix is being added to the existing fleet and will be cut into the production line.
The next big milestone for the F-35 is initial operational capability for the U.S. Marine Corps with the “B” model.
Though the milestone was slated for July 1, USMC Deputy Commandant for Aviation Lt. Gen. Jon Davis says it will likely be later in the month due to an operational readiness inspection.
The fire “event had negligible impact on service IOC timelines,” Dellavedova says.
Six F-35Bs just wrapped up operational testing on the USS Wasp last month.
Fonte ..... " Navy Air Boss: F-35C Advanced Sensors, Situational Awareness a ‘Game-Changer’ " .....The Navy’s top aviator checked out a simulator for its next-generation fighter jet, the F-35C Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), on Monday and lauded its advanced capabilities that will give it a leg up compared to legacy strike aircraft.
A “game-changer,” said Vice Adm. Mike Shoemaker, commander of Naval Air Forces, is the ability for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter to “suck in all that information” from various sensors and fuse it together to give pilots information in “a great, clear picture of who’s good and who’s bad.”
Fonte ..... "Italy Plans First F-35 Flight in October" .....The first F-35 flight outside the US will take place in October when Italy's first F-35 begins test flights after rolling off the country's final assembly line, a Lockheed Martin official said.
After entering service with the Italian Air Force, the aircraft, AL-1, will then fly across the Atlantic in the first quarter of 2016, probably via the UK and Iceland, to Luke Air Force Base in Arizona, where Italian pilots will train, said Debra Palmer, the Lockheed executive leading F-35 work in Italy.
That is the same route that joint strike fighters were due to take to reach the UK from the US last summer to appear at the Farnborough International Air Show.
The appearance was canceled when the JSF fleet was grounded due to a fire in the engine of one aircraft.
Fonte ..... "PARIS: Pratt says ‘dangerous world’ could drive F-35 sales" .....The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is noticeably absent at the Paris air show after the F-35B failed to arrive at Farnborough in 2014.
But Pratt & Whitney and Lockheed Martin have spared no opportunity at Paris to talk up the fifth-generation fighter programme’s maturity and the prospects of for additional aircraft sales.
Pratt & Whitney president Paul Adams said during a press briefing Tuesday that more nations will likely turn to JSF for protection as the world becomes “more dangerous”.
His comments comes as a US-led coalition drops bombs on Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria, and as a Russia and China continue to intimidate their neighbours with bomber flights and air intercepts.
Fonte ..... "Lockheed Martin Touts ‘Block Buy’ Option for F-35" .......... Lockheed Martin offered an indication of the pressure that is being applied as the F-35 program emerges from its system development and demonstration phase, which is expected to be completed in 2017.
The manufacturer and Terma, of Denmark, signed a memorandum of understanding that would secure Terma as a supplier for the F-35 over the life of the program – but only if Denmark selects the F-35 for its fighter replacement program.
Lockheed Martin is offering Danish industry $5.5 billion in industrial participation over a production run of some 3,000 F-35s, said executive vice president Orlando Carvalho.
If the Danish government does not select the F-35 “we would respect that decision,” he said.
But the long-term participation of Danish industry on the program “would be something that we would have to revisit.”
Fonte ..... "Pratt Recovery on F135 Paves Way for Future" .....Pratt & Whitney says retrofits of the F135 engine to enable unlimited operations in the F-35 are happening faster than originally planned and are on track for completion by early 2016.
“What a difference a year makes,” says F135 senior vice president Mark Buongiovno, referring to the program’s recovery from an engine failure in 2014 which not only badly damaged an F-35 but also temporarily grounded the fleet and prevented the aircraft from making its international debut at last year’s Farnborough Air Show.
Fonte ..... "Back To Basics for F-35" ..... http://aviationweek.com/paris-air-show- ... asics-f-35Weapons and upgrades could define the next era for the worldwide fighter market.
As Lockheed Martin and the Pentagon attempt over the next year or so to assemble a three-year block buy of 400-500 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, potential customers will be looking for firm definition behind the much-redefined Block 4 upgrade process, which will define all the capabilities that the F-35 will have between now and 2027.
This long-range planning is essential for JSF, because the program is large and weapon and system integration issues are unique.
Fonte ..... "PARIS: Lockheed to deliver final four IOC F-35Bs by 30 June" .....The last four F-35B Joint Strike Fighters the Marine Corps needs to declare initial operational capability will be delivered on 30 June, in time for an operational readiness inspection targeted for the second week of July.
That’s the assessment of Lockheed Martin's F-35 programme chief Lorraine Martin, who is closely monitoring the countdown to delivery of the final four.
Perché se invece fosse stato un vignettista di tendenza sarebbero diventate argute e di valore morale?richelieu ha scritto:Mah ..... sai com'è ..... quello è un ben noto vignettista ..... di tendenza .....Maxx ha scritto:Queste vignette sono come La Corazzata Potemkin.Valerio Ricciardi ha scritto:Se ne occupano anche i vignettisti...
Che dire ?Valerio Ricciardi ha scritto:Perché se invece fosse stato un vignettista di tendenzarichelieu ha scritto:Mah ..... sai com'è ..... quello è un ben noto vignettista ..... di tendenza .....Maxx ha scritto:Queste vignette sono come La Corazzata Potemkin.Valerio Ricciardi ha scritto:Se ne occupano anche i vignettisti...
sarebbero diventate argute e di valore morale?
A me sembra che il cardinale sia d'accordo sui contenuti sia per quanto attiene l'aereo che quel presidente ...
Già ..... Fremura ..... mi ricordo di quando, ancora giovanissimo, disegnava per 'La Nazione' di Firenze negli anni Sessanta (non sapevo che apparisse anche sul 'Borghese') ..... e, forse più conosciuto, Jacovitti .....Valerio Ricciardi ha scritto:Non è tanto vero, un tempo di umorismo "di destra" non becero e assolutamente arguto se n'è visto eccome.
Un esempio? Fremura, che pubblicava vignette efficacissime e certo non di sinistra sul Borghese.
O lo stesso Jacovitti, Benito all'anagrafe, le cui strips sulle elezioni a Mosca mi facevano scompisciare.
Fonte ..... il 'Daily Report' dell' AFA .....Lessons from Eglin F-35 Engine Fire .....
(6/22/2015)
Le Bourget, France .....
The F-35A engine fire at Eglin AFB, Fla., last year resulted in improved information sharing between F135 engine-maker Pratt and Whitney, the US services, and partner nations, Pratt and Whitney F135 Vice President Mark Buongiorno told Air Force Magazine during the Paris Air Show last week.
"I think there was learning on all fronts," he said.
From a technical view, there was learning between P&W, the US services, and the partner nations on how to better "manage and control communications under an [AIB]," or safety investigation board, he said.
But, he added, P&W got the aircraft flying again in just over three weeks, got to a root cause within 120 days, "and we were able to field fixes [into production line aircraft] in less than a year."
As of June, the company has retrofitted over 50 F-35s with fixes, including pre-trenching engine stators, which is slated to wrap by early 2016.
"I don't think the process failed us, because it really did yield some pretty good results when it comes to getting to the root cause, … configuring, and releasing to production."
Buongiorno said the process of getting to a root cause on the fire was aided because engineers had "good information available" from the F-35's systems.
"This is a data rich aircraft, so that helped to get to the root cause quickly," he said.
Fonte ..... "US report calls for dual-capable F-35C and tactical nukes" .....A US think tank has proposed installing nuclear weapons on the Lockheed Martin F-35C Joint Strike Fighter for deployment aboard aircraft carriers as a hedge against Russia and China.
Clark Murdock of the Center for Strategic and International Studies floated the idea of a return to carrier-based nuclear weapons in a new report published on 22 June.
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The report, titled Project Atom, considers alternative nuclear strategies and force postures in the 2025 to 2050 time frame.
Fonte ..... "F35B jet begins first ski-jump launch and weapons testing" .....The F35B Lightning II has successfully completed another major milestone as the fifth generation stealth fighter was launched into the skies from a ski-jump, Friday 19 June.
The land-based test — conducted by the F35 Lightning II Pax River Integrated Test Force — took place at Naval Air Station in Patuxent River, Maryland, US.
The joint U.S.-U.K. test team will continue phase I of ski jump testing this summer in anticipation of eventual U.K. aircraft carrier operations.
Peter Wilson is the BAE Systems test pilot and ski jump project lead for a highly diverse cadre of technicians, engineers, administrative support staff and test pilots based at the Pax River ITF and in the UK.
