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F-35’s first B-course takes flight
Feb 08, 2017 - The Air Force’s first F-35 Lightning II basic flight course class took to the skies for the first time as they entered the live flying portion of their training February 8, 2017. [Read more...]
First female F-35 pilot begins training
May 06, 2015 - The Department of Defense welcomed its first female F-35 Lightning II pilot on May 5. [Read more...]
Luke 1 flies first ‘student’ F-35 sortie
Mar 19, 2015 - The 56th Fighter Wing officially began training new F-35 pilots today when the first student, Brigadier General Scott Pleus, 56th Fighter Wing commander, flew the wing's first training sortie. [Read more...]
First Dutch F-35 pilot takes to skies
Dec 18, 2013 - The first Netherlands pilot took to the skies in the F-35A Lightning II at Eglin AFB, making the Netherlands the second partner country to operate the fifth-generation multirole fighter. [Read more...]
First ANG base to host the F-35A Lightning IIs
Dec 17, 2013 - Hill AFB was recently selected as the new home for the Air Force's first operational F-35A Lightning IIs. But, these jets are also set to patrol the skies of the Green Mountain State in the near future. The USAF announced their decision for operational basing of the F-35A at Burlington Air Guard Stationt, Vermont. [Read more...]
F-35 Lightning II Program Surpasses 10,000 Flight Hours
Oct 09, 2013 - The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II program continues its operational maturation, surpassing 10,000 flight hours in September. More than half of the total hours were accumulated in just the past 11 months. [Read more...]
F-35: New fighter creates new culture for 21st Century and beyond
Sep 26, 2013 - She didn't have a smudge on her. Not a leak found anywhere. She even had that "new jet smell." Skies were blue, everything was perfect. [Read more...]
809 Naval Air Squadron to Fly F-35
Sep 09, 2013 - 809 Naval Air Squadron (NAS), whose motto is simply ‘Immortal’, is to be reformed to operate the stealth fifth generation aircraft that will fly off the Royal Navy’s Queen Elizabeth Class carriers from 2018. [Read more...]
Navy launches first local F-35C sortie
Aug 15, 2013 - Sailors from U.S. Navy F-35 Strike Fighter Squadron-101 made history completing the first local flight in the F-35C Lightning II carrier variant on August 14, 2013. [Read more...]
Eglin F-35 fleet exceeds 2K sorties
Aug 15, 2013 - Airmen and Marines assigned to the F-35 Integrated Training Center at the 33rd Fighter Wing here have consistently flown successful training sorties and generated their 2,000th sortie on August 13 with an instructor pilot of the Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron-501 (VMFAT-501), at the controls. [Read more...]
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