F-35B USS Wasp DT-III Due 2016, Meanwhile 90 STOs/VLs
Marine Corps F-35B Finishing Sea Trials 29 Aug 2013 Kris Osborn
"USS WASP — The Marine Corps and Navy are close to wrapping up 19 days of Sea Trials for the Corps’ F-35B...
...The ongoing Sea Trials have resulted in at least 90 successful short take-offs and 92 vertical landings aboard the USS Wasp, said Joe DellaVedova, spokesman for the Joint Strike Fighter’s Joint Program Office....
...“Harriers are all manual controls. With the F-35 we have computers. A ton of engineering goes into making it a low work load. The plane is literally sampling winds, sampling conditions and the parameters,” said Marine Corps Capt. Michael Kingen, an F-35 developmental test pilot....
...The next Sea Trials for the F-35B are slated for sometime in 2016, DellaVedova said...."
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