Edwards Airman flies high as first military F-35 pilot

Air Force ^ | 1/31/08 | by Senior Airman Julius Delos Reyes

[Clarinet_King]

Read this article when I logged into work tonight. Maybe by the time I can crosstrain out of the Space Command I can be a crew chief on one of these baby’s.

[wastedyears]

I thought the F-35 has already flown.

[Doogle]

[Doogle]

whoops sorry

[BurbankKarl]

Oh, in Die Hard 4?

This is the first military pilot to fly it....so the others were contractor test pilots.

[EGPWS]

-- A pilot from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., became the first Air Force and government test pilot to fly the F-35 Lightning II during a test sortie at the Lockheed Martin facility Jan. 30 at Naval Air Station Fort Worth.

A bit of good news to make one feel good about paying taxes!

Sure beats the he!! out of paying for tax rebates to illegals. ; )

The F-35 sure looks to be the aircraft of the future and a first class aircraft to boot.

I'm smiling along with the test pilot. : - D

[Vroomfondel]

I thought the F-35 has already flown.

Sure, with Lockheed test pilots. This is the first flight by a government pilot.

[free_for_now]

They look less and less like planes and more and more like spaceships.

[CIDKauf]

Sweet ride!!!

[Elsiejay]

That would be imaginary spaceships, I assume.

[Ramius]

That’ll look good with the red white and blue Thunderbirds paintjob on it... someday. :-)

[Doogle]

did you see the newest rough terrain anti-aircraft missile carrier?

[jblair]

Is that a Larry McManus print? He does really nice work.

[free_for_now]

That would be imaginary spaceships, I assume.

Naturally.

[Blogger]

She’s a purty bird!

[Doogle]

the latest missile carrier

[Doogle]

maybe...from the DoD

[NonValueAdded]

Does he clank when he walks?

[RightWhale]

"I have been smiling since arriving at the aircraft this morning and haven't stopped," he said.

We haven't been doing a lot of this lately. It's still possible and that is a good thing.