Lockheed-Martin X-35/F-35 Joint Strike Fighter |
The Lockheed-Martin X-35 Joint
Strike Fighter took off on its first flight from Air Force
Plant 42 at Palmdale, California on the morning of October 24,
2000. It returned to Palmdale on November 22, a little after
three in the afternoon. It made a series of touch-and-go
landings. It will be equipped with a lift fan and vectored thrust
nozzle for short take-off/vertical landing tests next year.
The Lockheed-Martin
X-35B vertical take-off prototype of the Joint Strike Fighter
candidate flew from Palmdale to Edwards AFB on July 3, 2001.
The first Lockheed-Martin F-35A Lightning II, AA-1 completed air-start and noise tests at Edwards Air Force Base on Thursday October 23, 2008. It returned to Fort Worth on October 24.
US Air Force Pre-production Jet Fighters
You can buy a 2010 calendar featuring my photographs of the Lockheed-Martin F-35A Lightning II prototype and the X-35A Joint Strike Fighter deonstrator.
Eleven photographs of Lockheed-Martin F-35A Lightning II prototype AA-1 at Edwards Air Force Base on October 23, 2008 and one photograph of Lockheed-Martin X-35A Joint Strike Fighter demonstrator 301 at Palmdale Air Force Plant 42 on November 22, 2001.
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