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Pratt: First Joint Strike Fighter STOVL Test Flight To Be Mid-2008 Or Late 2008

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Thursday, March 20th, 2008

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By Emelie Rutherford HARTFORD, Conn.--The Marine Corps' variant of the developmental Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) is expected to fly for the first time in short-take-off-and-vertical-landing (STOVL) mode either late summer or the end of the year, Pratt & Whitney [UTX] officials said this week. Final prep work is being done now for the F-35B STOVL variant aircraft to fly its first test flight-- in a conventional mode--in late-May, William Gostic, Pratt & Whitney's vice president for F135 engine programs, told…

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