An F-35A Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter takes off on a training sortie at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida in this March 6, 2012 file photo. (REUTERS/U.S. Air Force photo/Randy Gon/Handout)
Lockheed said its production infrastructure is on track to meet requirements in coming years
It is a vast expanse … an indoor warehouse in Fort Worth, Texas, that almost resembles a small city, filled with row after row of F-35 stealth fighter components and structures at various stages of construction. Stealthy looking, green-colored pieces of fuselage, wires, wings, 25mm guns and partially completed aircraft fill up row after row along a seemingly endless walkway.
The building is home to large, airplane-size workstations in close proximity to one another and populated by workers, experts, engineers and others involved in F-35 creation. The ones showing a box-like lift fan on top of the fuselage are F-35Bs, the ones with the largest wings are F-35Cs and all of the stealthy airframes have a smoothed over rounded area for the aircraft’s 25mm cannon. (I had an opportunity to visit and report on the Fort Worth F-35 production facility several years ago.)
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