USMC Pilot Completes Longest Duration F-35 Flight To Date

Posted 18 December 2009
Photo by Liz Kaszynski

US Marine Corps pilot Maj. Joseph Bachmann completes the longest flight on an F-35 to date during the fifteenth flight of BF-2. The 3.7-hour mission, which includes aerial refueling, is in preparation for the ferry flight that will take the aircraft directly from Fort Worth, Texas, to Patuxent River, Maryland.

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