FSD Aircraft



  • AF-04
    AF-4 on its first flight on December 30th, 2010. Pilot was Lockheed Martin test pilot Bill 'Gigs' Gigliotti. [Lockheed Martin photo by Neal Chapman]
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    First flight of AF-04 on December 30th, 2010. Take-off at 3:02 PM and landing at 3:27 PM. [Photo by Sebastiaan Does]
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    First flight of AF-04 on December 30th, 2010. Take-off at 3:02 PM and landing at 3:27 PM. [Photo by Sebastiaan Does]
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    First flight of AF-04 on December 30th, 2010. Take-off at 3:02 PM and landing at 3:27 PM. [Photo by Sebastiaan Does]
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    First flight of AF-04 on December 30th, 2010. Take-off at 3:02 PM and landing at 3:27 PM. [Photo by Sebastiaan Does]
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    First flight of AF-04 on December 30th, 2010. Take-off at 3:02 PM and landing at 3:27 PM. [Photo by Sebastiaan Does]
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    First flight of AF-04 on December 30th, 2010. Take-off at 3:02 PM and landing at 3:27 PM. [Photo by Sebastiaan Does]
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    First flight of AF-04 on December 30th, 2010. Take-off at 3:02 PM and landing at 3:27 PM. [Photo by Sebastiaan Does]
  • AF-04_001
    AF-4 on its first flight on December 30th, 2010. Pilot was Lockheed Martin test pilot Bill 'Gigs' Gigliotti. [Lockheed Martin photo by Carl Richards]
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    The second F-35B, BF-02, descends to its first vertical landing on January 6th, 2011 at NAS Patuxent River. USMC's Lt. Col. Fred Schenk piloted the aircraft during the flight. [Lockheed Martin photo by Phaedra Loftis]
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    The second F-35B, BF-02, descends to its first vertical landing on January 6th, 2011 at NAS Patuxent River. USMC's Lt. Col. Fred Schenk piloted the aircraft during the flight. [Lockheed Martin photo by Phaedra Loftis]
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    The second F-35B, BF-02, prepares for its first vertical landing at NAS Patuxent River on January 6th, 2011. [Lockheed Martin Photo by Andy Wolfe]
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    The second F-35B, BF-02, prepares for its first vertical landing at NAS Patuxent River on January 6th, 2011. [Lockheed Martin Photo by Andy Wolfe]
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    The fifth flight of AF-04 seen as it arrives overhead at Edwards AFB on January 22nd, 2011 after a 3.2-hour ferry flight from Fort Worth, Texas at the hands of Maj. Matt Hayden. The aircraft is the fifth F-35A conventional take-off and landing aircraft to ferry to Edwards for testing. [Lockheed Martin photo by Liz Kaszynski]
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    F-35 Chief Test Pilot Jon Beesley vertically landed the second F-35B BF-02 on January 19th, 2010 marking the first vertical landing achieved by a non-Harrier-trained pilot. The flight, the eighty-fifth for BF-02, involved four sorties with one conventional & three short take-offs, four hovers, one vertical & three slow landings. [Photo by Andy Wolfe]