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The F-35A variant of Lockheed Martin's F-35 has completed its first night flight (Photo: Lockheed Martin)
The F-35A prepares for takeoff (Photo: Lockheed Martin)
The F-35A takes off on its first night flight (Photo: Lockheed Martin)
The F-35A on its maiden night flight (Photo: Lockheed Martin)
The F-35A admires the sunset on its maiden night flight (Photo: Lockheed Martin)
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Despite criticism in the U.S. regarding escalating costs, which has seen the Pentagon’s bill for a planned 2,443 F-35s going from US$233 billion to $385 billion, Lockheed Martin is pressing ahead with tests of the world’s only fifth generation jet fighter. It’s been over six years since the first F-35 took to the air for the first time and one and a half years since the F-35B short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) variant broke the sound barrier for the first time. Now the F-35A conventional takeoff and landing (CTOL) variant has completed the first night flight in the history of the F-35 program.
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