Lockheed Martin F-35B Video: Night Landing Looks Like UFO -- Christian Science Monitor
Lockheed Martin F-35B: The US Marine Corps is conducting sea tests of the new Lockheed Martin F-35B at night. Check out the video of the aircraft's first night takeoff and landing.
The world is getting its first look at the Lockheed Martin F-35B taking off and landing at night on the deck of a US naval ship.
While the Internet buzz is over how video of this short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) aircraft make it look like some kind of UFO, this is the US Marine Corps second round of sea tests of the F-35B Lightning.
The USS Wasp left the Naval Air Station at Patuxent River, Md. on Aug. 12 with two F-35Bs on board to conduct 18 days of tests at sea. Marine test "pilots will expand the F-35Bs allowable wind envelope for launch and recovery, conduct first-ever night operations at sea, conduct initial mission systems evaluations at sea, evaluate the dynamic interface associated with aircraft operations on a moving flight deck, and further evaluate shipboard sustainment of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter," according to the US Marine Corps.
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