So if the temperature of loaded fuel is not a special issue for the F-35, and the USAF has been loading fuel from green tankers in very hot climates quite routinely for the last 25 years ago, why did the Luke people even think that there was a problem? What did they see, or experience, that they thought was an issue? Did they make the whole thing up so they could wrap a press release around it?
BD also misses the fact that this is not a new issue:
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d09303.pdf (p.26)
It was supposedly solved with a new fuel pump in LRIP 3.
Anyway - anyone want to bet that further enquiries to Luke PA will be referred directly to Mr Vo-De-o-Do in JSFPO?