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Boeing lost the F-35 in 2001 — and the US Air Force designed the F-47 NGAD specifically to avoid what that loss created

In October 2001, Boeing lost the largest fighter program ever conceived and nearly lost the fighter business with it. For ...
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“You’re taking it to war, not to the senior prom”: The Boeing X-32 stealth fighter was no paper tiger

The X-32 was an experimental demonstrator aircraft built by Boeing to compete in the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) competition. We have spent a lot of time visiting the only two of these fighters ever ...
Flightglobal

JSF moves away from ‘winner takes all’

This week’s planned announcement selecting either Boeing or Lockheed Martin as the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) competition winner is expected to be rapidly followed by a move to integrate the losing ...
Aviation Week

Boeing says F/A-18 will always be less expensive than JSF

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) F-35 will have to undergo three more production blocks before reaching the capability of the F/A-18, according to Boeing Integrated Defense Systems Vice President ...
UPI

JSF program's CATBird test plane arrives

FORT WORTH, Texas, March 5 (UPI) -- A modified Boeing 737 that will be used to test the avionics package for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has arrived in Texas. The airliner dubbed the Cooperative ...