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First night flight for F-35 (video)

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DC Aviation News Examiner

The first night flight in the history of the Lockheed Martin F-35 program was completed on Thursday in the skies above Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.

Piloted by Lockheed Martin Test Pilot Mark Ward, AF-6, an F-35A conventional takeoff and landing variant, launched at 5:50 p.m. PST and landed after sunset at 6:22 p.m.

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The first night flight in the history of the Lockheed Martin F-35 program was completed on Thursday in the skies above Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.

Video: F-35 performs first night flight

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Keith Stein is an Aircraft Dispatcher and Student Pilot at a flight school in the Washington, D.C. area. He has extensive experience with Microsoft Flight Simulator and monitoring air traffic control communications. Keith has written about aviation since the mid-1990s.

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