Brand new BRITISH AIRCRAFT CARRIER completes F-35 First of Class FLIGHT TRIALS!

Brand new BRITISH AIRCRAFT CARRIER completes F-35 ‘First of Class FLIGHT TRIALS’! (North Atlantic Ocean, November 2018.) US and UK team members from the F-35 Pax River Integrated Test Force recently carried out First of Class Flight Trials from the flight deck of HMS Queen Elizabeth—this was a very significant occasion because, among other things, it marks the return of fixed-wing maritime aircraft to the UK. (The F-35B Lightning II short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) variant is, of course, the world’s