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- January 30, 2023
- "Blast From the Past": The First F-35 Flight by the U.S. Air Force feat. Jim Kromberg
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The U.S. Air Force became the first government customer to fly the F-35. On January 30, 2008, Lt. Col. Jim Kromberg flew the A variant of the fifth-generation fighter jet into history for the U.S. military.
The next feature in the F-35 Joint Program Office’s Blast From the Past series revisits that flight with Kromberg. He speaks about his experience and why it was an important F-35 development milestone when the contractor delivers the fighter jet to the government for flights.
Read more: https://www.dvidshub.net/news/437439/us-air-force-soars-f-35-talk-with-lt-col-jim-kromberg