Posted on 06/29/2016 8:54:44 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
The RAF's state-of-the art new fighter jet touched down in the UK for the first time tonight.
The world’s most advanced stealth aircraft landed at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire, after flying from the US with a Briton at the controls.
Its arrival came two years after it pulled out of air shows because of an engine fire.
As if the sky had been choreographed, a spectacular rainbow broke out on the arrrival of the new jets
The £100million British F-35B Lightning II jet - joined by two more owned by the US Marine Corps - will take part in a series of air shows across the UK next month.
It will carry out its first flight over its new base at RAF Marham, Norfolk, and over the two aircraft carriers currently being built in Scotland.
The Ministry of Defence has so far bought eight of the jets, which are set to fly off the two carriers by 2020.
The F-35B is one of the most advanced aircraft in the history of aviation but has been plagued by problems
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The F-35B will eventually be flown off the Royal Navy's new carriers, HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales. The former is due to come into service next spring. The original plan was to buy a short take-off and landing (STOL) version of the F-35 and fit the carriers with catapults and arrester traps
It’s still a turkey.
JSF? LOL... three way bastardized turkrey. Interchangable parts? Not so much. Questionable concept - deplorable delivery.
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