F-35 Program Shifts Focus To Defining Cooling System Upgrades
A Lockheed Martin F-35A took off on Jan. 6 for the first time with the L3Harris Integrated Core Processor, a powerful new flight computer that—along with several new mission systems—is pushing an overworked cooling system even harder.
Credit: US Air Force
U.S. and international F-35 operators are defining the requirements for the next major aircraft upgrade to follow and complement the Block 4 and propulsion system efforts, with a significant evolution in the active and passive systems used to cool down the stealth jet’s increasingly powerful...
F-35 Program Shifts Focus To Defining Cooling System Upgrades is part of our Aviation Week & Space Technology - Inside MRO and AWIN subscriptions.
Subscribe now to read this content, plus receive full coverage of what's next in technology from the experts trusted by the commercial aircraft MRO community.
Already a subscriber to AWST or an AWIN customer? Log in with your existing email and password.
Related Content
