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USAF F-35A AF-01 first flight on November 14th, 2009 with Dave"DOC" Nelson at controls. [Lockheed photo by Tom Harvey]
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USNavy F-35C (CF-01) returns to NAS Patuxent River from a flutter envelope expansion flight on March 4th, 2011. During the flight, U.S. Marine Corps test pilot Lt. Col. Matt Taylor flew the aircraft faster than the speed of sound for the first time, reaching Mach 1.02 at 30,000 feet. [Lockheed-Martin photo]
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USNavy F-35C (CF-01) over the Chesapeake Bay after Lt. Cmdr. Eric 'Magic' Buus flew the F-35C for two hours test flight, checking instruments that will measure structural loads on the airframe during flight maneuver. [Lockheed photo]
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Lockheed Martin test pilot Dan Canin set a one-day high-angle-of-attack test point record for an F-35B on April 26th, 2014, by completing thirty-four high AOA test points on a single flight. The flight was conducted in F-35B BF-02 from NAS Patuxent River. [Lockheed photo by Dane Wiedmann]
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USMC F-35B BF-05 lands aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1) during the second at-sea F-35 developmental test event. The F-35B is the Marine Corps variant of the joint strike fighter and is undergoing testing aboard Wasp. [Lockheed photo by Andy Wolfe]
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F-35B BF-04 has successfully completed another major milestone as the fifth generation stealth fighter was launched into the skies from a ski-jump on June 19th, 2015. [Lockheed Martin photo]
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An F-35A Lightning II, #AF-02, fires a burst of rounds down range at the Edwards Gun Harmonizing Range on July 17th, 2015 at Edwards AFB. The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Integrated Test Force is in the process of testing the F-35A Lightning II’s newest munitions asset; a four-barrel Gatling gun that fires 25 mm rounds, known as the GAU-22/A. [Photo by Darin Russell]
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A look down range at the Gun Harmonizing Range target on July 17th, 2015. The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Integrated Test Force at Edwards AFB is in the process of testing the F-35A’s newest munitions asset - the GAU-22/A. [Photo by Darin Russell]
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USAF F-35A #AF-04 refuels from Italian KC-767A no. 62228 over California on August 7th, 2015. This one flight saw the KC-767A connect twenty-five times with the F-35A transferring 16,000 pounds of jet fuel. Reason for the test was to confirm Italian F-35A's will be able to refuel from their KC-767s. [Lockheed Martin photo by Chad Bellay]
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CF-05 F-35C Lightning II carrier variant JSF from the Pax River ITF conducts its first arrested landing aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69). Two F-35Cs from the Salty Dogs of VX-23 are conducting follow-on developmental test (DT-II) sea trials aboard the Eisenhower. Lt. Chris 'TJ' Karapostoles flew aircraft 75/CF-05. [Lockheed Martin photo by Andy Wolfe]
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CF-05 F-35C Lightning II carrier variant JSF assigned to the Salty Dogs of VX-23 makes an arrested landing aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69). The F-35C Lightning II Pax River ITF is currently conducting follow-on sea trials aboard the Eisenhower. [USNavy photo by MC. Anderson W. Branch]
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CF-03 F-35C Lightning II carrier variant JSF assigned to the Salty Dogs of VX-23 prepares to take off from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69). The F-35C Lightning II Pax River ITF is aboard Dwight D. Eisenhower conducting follow-on sea trials. [USNavy photo by MC3. Jameson E. Lynch]
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Cmdr. Ted 'Dutch' Dyckman, an F-35 Lightning II test pilot from the F-35 Pax River Integrated Test Force, on approach for an arrested landing aboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) on October 3rd, 2015. [Lockheed Martin photo by Andy Wolfe]
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Maj. Charles Trickey, a 461st Flight Test Squadron F-35 experimental test pilot, successfully fires the four-barrel 25 mm GAU-22/A Gatling gun while in flight on October 30th, 2015 over China Lake Weapon Range, California. [Photo by Chad Bellay]
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USAF F-35A #AF-1 from the 461st FLTS at Edwards AFB became the first F-35 to fire the AIM-9X missile on January 12th, 2016. [Lockheed Martin photo by Chad Bellay]
