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First Navy F-35C Flies, First Missionized F-35B Lands At NAS Pax

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Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

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By Geoff Fein After Sunday's first flight of its Navy version of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), Lockheed Martin [LMT] has now flown all three variants and is preparing to begin delivering full missionized aircraft to the services in the coming year. Additionally, Sunday's flight marked the first for the production configured Pratt & Whitney [UTX] engine, which includes a number of improvements. And, on Monday, the first mission systems-equipped F-35B (BF-4) short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) arrived at Naval Air…

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