F-35B Joint Strike Fighter and Edwards Air Force Base in one cool photo

August 28, 2012 F-35
David Cenciotti

Taken on Aug. 8, during an airstart testing mission, this cool picture shows F-35B test aircraft BF-2 overflying Edwards Air Force Base, California.

Edwards AFB is the most famous U.S. test base. Home of the 412th Test Wing and NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, it has hosted flight testing campaigns of almost every American military plane since the ’50s.

Image credit: Lockheed Martin

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David Cenciotti is a journalist based in Rome, Italy. He is the Founder and Editor of “The Aviationist”, one of the world’s most famous and read military aviation blogs. Since 1996, he has written for major worldwide magazines, including Air Forces Monthly, Combat Aircraft, and many others, covering aviation, defense, war, industry, intelligence, crime and cyberwar. He has reported from the U.S., Europe, Australia and Syria, and flown several combat planes with different air forces. He is a former 2nd Lt. of the Italian Air Force, a private pilot and a graduate in Computer Engineering. He has written five books and contributed to many more ones.

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