The 1,000th F-35B vertical landing

The F-35B clocked its 1,000th vertical landing at NAS Patuxent River with BAE Systems test pilot Peter ‘Wizzer’ Wilson at the controls.

F-35B Lightning of VMFAT-501 hovers over Eglin AFB 2013
By U.S. Air Force photo by Samuel King [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Wilson also had the honor of being the first pilot to launch the F-35B from a ski jump last year.