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May 3, 2021 Nine U.S. Marine Corps And Eight RAF F-35Bs Have Embarked On HMS Queen Elizabeth F-35

Up Close And Personal With Textron’s Scorpion Light Attack Jet During Weapons Separation Testing

September 6, 2017 Todd Miller

Textron’s Scorpion Aces Weapons Separation Testing. Going five for five in the complex, methodical and engineering-driven military aircraft test regimes is rare. Weather, range logistics, recording equipment, aircraft readiness or one of any other number […]

First F-35's STOVL propulsion system in-flight test video

January 12, 2010 David Cenciotti

The F-35B Lightning II short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) currently deployed at NAS Patuxent River conducted the first of a series of planend STOVL propulsion system in flight tests that will include short takeoffs, hovers and […]