Mine's a GT - Pilot's View of first F-35B VL -- Ares/Aviation Week
BAE Systems' Graham Tomlinson, aka "GT", lead test pilot for the STOVL F-35B, says that, with today's first vertical landing, the flight-test team has "joined the dots" on everything the US Marine Corps (and the UK and Italy) need to operate the aircraft: from short take-off, conversion to conventional flight then back to STOVL mode, to vertical landing.
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