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Boeing Launches New JSF Fighter At Edwards AFB.
Advanced Materials & Composites News, October, 2000
Boeing's version of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) had its first flight on Monday, 18 September, at Palmdale, California, six months behind schedule, but ahead of Lockheed Martin[superscript one]s entry. The X 32A concept demonstrator, competing with another version from Lockheed Martin Corp.
to win the largest military contract, lifted off from Boeing's assembly plant in Palmdale shortly before 8 a.m., then landing at Edwards Air Force Base about 30 miles to the north. The X-32 JSF is being designed to replace various Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps aircraft, as well as Britain's Sea Harrier. The X-32A, which will undergo four or five more months of flight tests, must show traditional takeoff and landing qualities for the U.S. Air Force and low-speed carrier...
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