US Marines F-35s



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    An F-35B performs a decklanding on an LPD. [Lockheed Martin photo by Todd McQueen]
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    USMC F-35B BF-01 for the first time with external stores, an F-35B test aircraft executes a vertical landing at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland on September 16, 2013. The aircraft carried two AIM-9X test weapons on its wings. [Lockheed photo]
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    USMC F-35B BF-13 flies over Edwards AFB, California on November 6, 2013. [Lockheed photo]
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    USMC F-35B BF-28 #168726 on June 8, 2013 on its first flight at NAS Fort Worth JRB, Texas. [photo by Photo by Carl Richards]
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    USMC F-35B BF-29 #168727 coded VK-09 on June 29, 2013 taking off for the first time at NAS Fort Worth JRB, Texas. [Lockheed photo by John Wilson]
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    USMC F-35B BF-30 serial #168728 on September 18, 2013 for first flight at NAS Fort Worth JRB, Texas. [Lockheed photo by Carl Richards]
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    USMC F-35B BF-32 serial 168730 and marked VK-12 seen on June 21, 2013 for first flight from NAS Fort Worth JRB, Texas. [Lockheed photo by Carl Richards]
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    USMC F-35B BF-33 serial #168731 coded VK-13 as seen on first flight on September 3, 2013 at NAS Fort Worth JRB, Texas. [Lockheed photo by Randy Crites]
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    USMC F-35B BF-34 serial #168732 and coded VK-14 on November 12, 2013. [Lockheed photo by Carl Richards]
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    USMC F-35B BF-35 with markings VM-12 and serial #168838 on first flight that occurred on November 12, 2013 at NAS Fort Worth JRB, Texas. [Lockheed photo by Carl Richards]
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    USMC F-35B BF-36 serial #168839 and coded VM-13 seen here on December 23, 2013. [Lockheed photo by Carl Richards]
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    USMC F-35B test aircraft just after executing a short takeoff from the deck of the USS Wasp on August 17, 2013. [Lockheed photo]
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    USMC F-35B test aircraft BF-01 on the USS Wasp with another jet in the air on August 17, 2013. Two short takeoff/vertical landing variant F-35 test aircraft operated off of the Wasp for Developmental Test Phase Two. [Lockheed photo]
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    Lt. Col. Joseph Bachmann (far left), commanding officer, VMFAT-501, MCAS Beaufort, takes a group photo with his crew after landing the first F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter to call MCAS Beaufort home, July 17, 2014. The arrival of the F-35B marks the official homecoming of the Warlords to MCAS Beaufort. [USMC photo by Cpl. Aneshea S. Yee]
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    Lt. Col. Joseph Bachmann, commanding officer, VMFAT-501, MCAS Beaufort, lands the first F-35B Lightning II #168057 that will call Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, South Carolina home on July 17, 2014. [USMC photo by Cpl. Aneshea S. Yee]