Boeing developed the X-32 as a technology demonstrator for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) competition. The JSF contract, of course, went to the Lockheed Martin X-35, which has since become the ...

it had to win its place in a head-to-head competition with another fighter concept: the Boeing X-32. In the 1990s, the U.S. spearheaded a monumental contract competition – the Joint Strike ...

Test pilots from Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Air Force had already flown the new F-35 Lightning II, or Joint Strike Fighter, when U.S. Marine Major J.T. Bachmann took it up for a test run on ...