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Wednesday, October 5, 2011

F-35B completes first vertical landing at sea

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An F-35B Lightning II makes the first vertical landing on a flight deck at sea (Photo: U.S...

strike F-35B Joint (JSF) has successfully completed its first sea duty vertical landing. With the pilot Marine Lt. Col. Fred Schenk at the controls, short-takeoff vertical landing (STOVL) variant of the F-35 landed on the deck of the USS Wasp on October 3 as part of a ship two weeks earlier period test in which the capacity of takeoff and landing of the aircraft will be evaluated along with its ability to integrate the operations of the flight deck of the ship ... Continue reading F-35B completes first vertical landing in the sea

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