
The day after the Defense Department lifted its grounding of the F-35, it announced the jet wouldn’t make its long-awaited international debut this week. The Pentagon decided against sending Marine Corps and United Kingdom F-35B aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean to participate in the U.K.’s Farnborough Air Show this week, DoD spokesman Mark Wright said Tuesday in a statement. This decision, Wright said, was reached after consultation with operational commanders and airworthiness authorities, despite the decision by airworthiness authorities to…