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F-35 Not Flying At Farnborough, DoD Lifts Grounding

Pat Host

Tuesday, July 15th, 2014

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F-35 Not Flying At Farnborough, DoD Lifts Grounding

The Air Force's F-35A conventional variant. Photo: Air Force.

The day after the Defense Department lifted its grounding of the F-35, it announced the jet wouldn’t make its long-awaited international debut this week. The Pentagon decided against sending Marine Corps and United Kingdom F-35B aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean to participate in the U.K.’s Farnborough Air Show this week, DoD spokesman Mark Wright said Tuesday in a statement. This decision, Wright said, was reached after consultation with operational commanders and airworthiness authorities, despite the decision by airworthiness authorities to…

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