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Pentagon Examining Fueldraulic Line Failure On F-35B

Friday, January 25th, 2013

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The Pentagon has suspended flight operations of the Marine Corps variant of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) as a precaution following an incident involving a fueldraulic line in the vectoring propulsion system, a spokesman said. Joe DellaVedova, the spokesman for the F-35 program office, said recently the Pentagon is still looking into the problem behind the grounding that took effect. “We’re still driving to root cause,” he said in an email. The grounding affects 25 F-35Bs, which are designed…

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