F-35 started with recipe for trouble, analysts say By Bob Cox rcox@star-telegram.com As Pentagon officials worked on the 2012 defense budget proposal late last year, they were forced, yet again, to devote several billion dollars more to try to fix the F-35 joint strike fighter program. Nearly a decade after Lockheed Martin's Fort Worth division won the F-35 contract, the company is still struggling to deliver on its commitments for what is arguably the most technologically ambitious aircraft ever built. In a nutshell, the F-35 program is five to six years behind schedule. The estimated cost to taxpayers has nearly...