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And, it is a harbinger of continued success for the concurrent development of the global
F-35 combat enterprise.

What was striking about the day was the significant gap between the working reality of
the dedicated professionals in the F-35 program, including test pilots putting their life
on the line every flight, and the world only a few miles away inside the Beltway. At Pax,
the F-35 is moving rapidly to becoming a 21st century combat reality.

Ski jump testing of F-35B at Pax River. June 2015.

Many cubical commandoes have made a career using second order interlocking google
searches that are essentially hypothetical opinion pieces with no actual research to
comment on the F-35. The vast amount of ‘literature” discussing the plane has little or
nothing to do with the reality at Pax and all the actual tactical flying going on at many
military airfields where the F-35 fleet can be found.

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