{"id":5807,"date":"2018-10-17T07:33:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T07:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=5807"},"modified":"2018-10-17T07:33:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T07:33:16","slug":"most-f-35-jets-back-in-the-air-after-fuel-tube-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/most-f-35-jets-back-in-the-air-after-fuel-tube-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Most F-35 jets back in the air after fuel tube issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Most F-35 jets have been cleared and returned to flight status after the entire fleet was grounded last week due to a fuel tube issue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More than 80 percent of Pentagon&#8217;s F-35 joint strike fighters have been cleared and returned to flight status after the entire fleet was grounded last week due to a fuel tube issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter completing inspections, more than 80 percent of operational F-35s have been cleared and returned to flight operations,\u201d the F-35 joint program office said in a statement Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The office adds that all U.S. military services and international partners have resumed flying with the cleared fifth-generation fighter jets.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon last week grounded the Lockheed Martin-made aircraft to examine the fuel tubes within the engines, made separately by Pratt &amp; Whitney. The fuel tubes, found in all F-35 variants, were suspected to be the cause of an F-35B crash on Sept. 28. near the Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, S.C.<\/p>\n<p>The statement adds that the issue is not expected to impact F-35 deliveries and the program remains on track to meet its target of 91 aircraft delivered to military services and foreign customers this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore than 1,500 suppliers are on the F-35 program and this is an isolated incident which is quickly being addressed and fixed,\u201d the program office said in a statement. \u201cSafety is our primary goal, and we will continue to take every measure to ensure safe operations while we execute our mission.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The F-35 program is the most expensive weapons program in history and has received criticism for having had numerous issues including cost overruns and various technical problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most F-35 jets have been cleared and returned to flight status after the entire fleet was grounded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[62,1,125],"tags":[227,320,256,252,205,7],"class_list":["post-5807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-united-states","tag-air-force","tag-airbus","tag-aircraft","tag-f-35","tag-pentagon","tag-u-s"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/F-35B_Lightning.jpg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-1vF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5807"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5809,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5807\/revisions\/5809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}