They combined the cockpit from an F-35, which experienced an engine failure on the runway, with the aft fuselage from another F-35, which suffered a nose gear failure. On Jan. 24, 2025, our friend and contributor Victoria Fontana caught a pretty interesting F-35A taxing at NAS JRB Fort Worth: the so-called “Franken-Lightning”, a Lightning II […]
The post First Public Glimpse Of The ‘Franken-Lightning’ Built From Two Damaged F-35s appeared first on The Aviationist.