Posted on 10/31/2011 11:22:40 AM PDT by saminfl
EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE - The Pentagon's weapons testing office wants to delay F-35 pilot training because of safety concerns.
Initial training for the jets at Eglin Air Force Base is scheduled to start in November.
Bloomberg news say the director of operational testing wants that pushed back as much as ten months.
He says the F-35 "Has not yet met the prerequisites previously set for reducing" air-mission abort rates and "resolving other safety-related issues."
Those issues include software fixes for a flaw that grounded the jets for two weeks in August.
A Department of Defense spokesman says the Air Force is reviewing the concerns and will ensure flight safety is adequately addressed.
F35 Pilot Training Delay Monday, October 31 2011, 11:41 AM CDT
They just do not have the back bone to say canceled .
Tip of the iceberg of what is happening to the USAF right now. Major cut backs already in the Information Systems.
Write a short, very short list of the good news for the F-35 it won’t take very long at all.
go lockheed, yea
OBOGS in the F35 as well?
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