New F-35 Test Pilot

Posted 10 February 2011
Photo by Tom Reynolds

Lockheed Martin test pilot Mark Ward became the seventeenth pilot to fly the F-35 when he took off from Edwards AFB, California, for the eighty-sixth flight of AF-2. The 1.6-hour mission, on 10 February, included testing flying qualities, engine transients, and multiple landings.

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