Years ago, both the Boeing X-32 and the Lockheed Martin X-35 were battling to win the right to become the next Joint Strike Fighter. As history notes, Boeing lost to the Lockheed Martin F-35.

But the X-32 was a radical departure from traditional ... On October 26, 2001, Lockheed Martin secured the contract for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), and the X-35 became the F-35 Lightning ...

Most significantly, he served as the Navy's chief test pilot on the Joint Strike Fighter program, conducting test flights of Boeing's experimental X-32 fighter plane. In this interview ...

Boeing lost its last bid to build a fighter jet when its X-32 lost out to Lockheed's X-35 in the Joint Strike Fighter competition in 2001. A separate effort to award a contract for the NGAD's ...

the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter. The company went head-to-head with Boeing for this program, winning a contract with its X-35 design over the competing X-32. The F-35 fighter jet is ...

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter was designed to combine stealth, maneuverability and attack capabilities in a single aircraft. Each jet costs about $85 million (78 million euros), and the price ...