USAF Plans for Fighters Change

Aviation Week & Space Technology 09/20/04
author: David A. Fulghum
author: Robert Wall

The U.S. Air Force's top leaders say the service will buy several wings of the short takeoff/vertical landing F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, following the news from Lockheed Martin's engineers that the aircraft is shedding more than a ton of weight and gaining thrust.

I guess the Air Force is now going into the SVTOL action.