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Air Force

Fix For F-35 Ejection Seat Issues May Take One Year to Integrate in Fleet

Valerie Insinna

Monday, October 26th, 2015

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Fix For F-35 Ejection Seat Issues May Take One Year to Integrate in Fleet

An F-35A, tail number AF-2, fires a burst of rounds down range at the Gun Harmonizing Range at Edwards AFB.

The F-35 program office is working on a variety of fixes for ejection seat issues that caused the Air Force to impose weight restrictions, but it may take a year until pilots weighing less than 136 pounds are cleared to fly the Lockheed Martin [LMT] jet, the program executive officer said on Wednesday during testimony to the House Armed Services Committee.The Air Force in mid-October announced that it had restricted pilots weighing less than 136 pounds from piloting the F-35…

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