This from Defense News.com
U.S. Air Force chief Gen. Norton Schwartz is considerably "more optimistic" than he was this spring about the future of the F-35 Lightning II program given the significant progress being made on the plane's test programRead the whole thing but the Air Force buy is critical. To hear the Air Force Chief stating such reasoned thought when it comes to the F-35 is a pleasant surprise.
"I am more confident than I was, to be sure," about the F-35A - the Joint Strike Fighter version his service will fly - due to a recent string of testing successes with the jet, Schwartz said during an Aug. 4 meeting with the editorial staff of Defense News and Air Force Times.
The critics have failed. This airplane will be placed into full rate production.
Oh and for my boys at Lockheed...go on and destroy the tooling for the F-22...we won't be needing it!