The F-35 Lightning II's engine is particularly powerful to make up for this reduced output. The Pratt & Whitney F135 ...

An F-35 pilot might still choose to exceed afterburner limits during an urgent combat scenario, accepting the risk that the plane might sustain “degradation of [stealth], damage to antennas, and ...

Key Point: An F-35 pilot might still choose to exceed afterburner limits during an urgent combat scenario, accepting the risk… After eighteen years of troubled and controversial development, the ...

Imagery of F-35Bs operating at night make it look like afterburner is used in vertical mode, but the truth is more interesting.

As problematic as the F-35 Lightning II has been so far, this airplane can look mighty amazing. Look at this F-35B going all afterburny in a flight test at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md ...

But we do have air shows and an entire demonstration team dedicated to advertising the F-35A Lightning ll variant of the plane (that would be the USAF version). Thanks to these two elements, and ...

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter made its first afterburner take-off from Lockheed Martin’s Fort Worth, Texas plant on 13 March.

Four F-35s were returning to Hill Air Force Base in Ogden, Utah, after a training flight last October when one of them encountered unforeseen turbulence as it prepared to land.