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Marines move forward with F-35B
Mar 19, 2010 - The Marine Corps moved closer March 18 to adding the Joint Strike Fighter F-35B STOVL (Short Take-Off Vertical Landing) variant to its arsenal. The test plane, BF-1, rode more than 41,000 pounds of thrust to a vertical landing for the first time, confirming its required ability to land in confined areas both ashore and afloat. [Read more...]
F-35 completes first vertical landing
Mar 18, 2010 - A supersonic Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II stealth fighter rode more than 41,000 pounds of thrust to a vertical landing today for the first time, confirming its required ability to land in confined areas both ashore and afloat. [Read more...]
F-35B demonstrates first hover and short takeoff
Mar 17, 2010 - The first Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II short takeoff, vertical landing (STOVL) stealth fighter demonstrated the capability to hover today during a test flight at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. [Read more...]
F-35B does 40-knot flight and four slow landings in one day
Mar 11, 2010 - It was a good day of flying at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, as two F-35B jets took to the skies no less than six times on Wednesday, March 10. [Read more...]
33rd FW 'measures' up with milestone
Feb 26, 2010 - The 33rd Fighter Wing marked another milestone as pilots received measurements for the first F-35 pilot equipment on February 25. [Read more...]
Fifth F-35 airborne
Feb 03, 2010 - A Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) stealth fighter today became the fifth F-35 to begin flight operations. [Read more...]
First U.K. service pilot flies F-35
Jan 27, 2010 - A Royal Air Force officer on Tuesday became the first active-duty service pilot from the United Kingdom to take to the skies in a Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II. [Read more...]
F-35B begins in-flight STOVL operations
Jan 08, 2010 - The Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) stealth fighter engaged its STOVL propulsion system in flight for the first time today. [Read more...]
Second F-35B arrives at NAS Patuxent River
Dec 29, 2009 - The second Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) stealth fighter arrived today at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. [Read more...]
F-35 Joint Strike Fighter critics fail history
Dec 28, 2009 - Criticising the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program isn’t especially useful if the people doing it are just flat wrong in their assumptions. Take for instance an article penned by Winslow T. Wheeler and Pierre M. Sprey in the  The Huffington Post called, “A Tale of Two Pigs”. [Read more...]
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