F-35B BF-5 First Flight

Posted 27 January 2011
Photo by Randy Crites

F-35B BF-5, the last F-35B Lightning II assigned to developmental flight testing, took off from NAS Fort Worth JRB on 27 January 2011.  Lockheed Martin test pilot Bill Gigliotti was the pilot for the flight. The aircraft will ferry to NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, later this year, where it will join four F-35Bs and one F-35C currently undergoing testing


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