Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz said Aug. 4 that a recent string of successes during tests of the F-35A has increased his confidence in the JSF program.Schwartz: Optimism Growing On F-35 -- Air Force Times
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 program.
“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 a Wednesday meeting with the editorial staff of Defense News and Air Force Times.
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