Podcast: F135 Engine Fire

The Sept. 8 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology includes a detailed report on the engine fire that trashed the Joint Strike Fighter's U.K. air show plans this summer, and that may have done the same to a $200 million aircraft. 

In our latest Check 6 podcast, Aviation Week senior editors Bill Sweetman, Amy Butler and Guy Norris talk to Joe Anselmo about the complex and unusual chain of events that left an aircraft in flames, revealed incipient problems in several Pratt & Whitney F135 engines, and continue to enforce stringent flight restrictions on the test and training fleets.