The repair that ultimately resulted in the creation of the Franken-Lightning took two years and five months to complete and ...

The F-35A Lightning II “Frankenjet,” assigned to the 4th Fighter Generation Squadron, 388th Fighter Wing, returned to Hill Air Force Base, Utah, on March 26. (Capt. Nathan Poblete/U.S. Air Force) An F ...

The F-35A stealth fighter jet is made from recycled parts of two broken planes and has been dubbed the "Frankenjet" - but it ...

In a pioneering repair mission, the US Air Force has returned a fully operational F-35A fighter jet to active service by ...

The F-35A Lightning II “Frankenjet,” assigned to the 4th Fighter Generation Squadron, 388th Fighter Wing, returned to Hill Air Force Base, Utah, on March 26. (Capt. Nathan Poblete/U.S. Air ...

He completed Undergraduate Flying Training in January 1972, and after graduation as “Top Gun” of his class at F-4E Phantom Combat Crew Training School, he was assigned to the 4th Tactical Fighter ...

Lt. Col. Liu Yong-Cheng, 4th Tactical Fighter Wing, 24th Squadron (through translator): Taiwan has upgraded the F-16s' capabilities and acquired new equipment, but I believe training the operators ...

In what could be called a modern world wonder, the US Air Force has inducted a first-of-its-kind F-35A Lightning II fighter made from two crashed F-35As. The assembled fighter, known as the ...

The 1st Fighter Wing in Virginia operates half of the service's 187 F-22s, divided between three squadrons (the 27th Fighter Squadron, 71st Fighter Squadron and the 94th Fighter Squadron). The wing ...

“When we received the aircraft, it was pretty much a shell,” said Senior Airman Jaguar Arnold, the aircraft’s crew chief from the 4th Fighter Generation Squadron, where the aircraft was hangared in ...