First STOVL F-35B JSF begins engine runs

The short take-off and landing F-35B Joint Strike Fighter has moved a step closer to first flight with the first engine runs at Lockheed Martin’s Fort Worth, Texas, plant. Two runs on April 18 totalling almost an hour began the final series of ground tests leading up to a first flight, expected in...

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