A US Air Force F-35 pilot spent 50 minutes on an airborne conference call with Lockheed Martin engineers trying to solve a problem with his fighter jet before he ejected and the plane plunged to the ground in Alaska earlier this year, an accident report released this week says.
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/natosource/lockheed-claims-tailhook-fix-will-allow-f35s-to-land-on-aircraft-carriers/
Took forever to deliver
Bad design all around.
Massively over budget
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-23-106047
Just for the F-35c, a single engine design for a carrier is dumb as fuck! I spent a lot of time dealing with these planes.