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AV-8B that crashed off Okinawa had went into a spin

Posted on February 2, 2017February 2, 2017 by alert5

Lt. Gen. Jon M. Davis, the USMC’s deputy commandant for Aviation, disclosed that a AV-8B that crashed in September off Okinawa had went into a spin.

By U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Jason Robertson; The original uploader was Looper5920 at English Wikipedia, 2007-04-07 (original upload date) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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Osprey destroyed; U.S. soldier killed during raid in Yemen

Posted on January 30, 2017 by alert5

A member of the U.S. special forces was killed during a raid on Al Qaeda fighters in central Yemen. A V-22 dispatched to evacuate the wounded later had to make a hard landing and the wreckage was later deliberately destroyed.

Source: Twitter

First pilot to clock 1,000 hours on the F-35

Posted on January 22, 2017January 22, 2017 by alert5

After flying the F-35 for eight years, Lockheed Martin test pilot David “Doc” Nelson became the first pilot to achieve 1,000 flight hours on the jet during a test sortie Jan. 6.

Photo: Tom Reynolds/Lockheed Martin
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F-35Bs arrived in Japan!

Posted on January 18, 2017January 18, 2017 by alert5

Two USMC F-35Bs from VMFA-121 have arrived at MCAS Iwakuni, Japan around 17:30 JST today.

VMFA-121 on its way to Japan

Posted on January 18, 2017 by alert5

The U.S. Marine Corps has released some pictures of the F-35B above the North Pacific Ocean as VMFA-121 make its way to Japan for the type’s first overseas deployment.

NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN—Marine Corps F-35Bs from Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 121, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, transit the Pacific from Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Ariz., to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Jan. 9, 2017, with its final destination of Iwakuni, Japan, to join 1st Marine Aircraft Wing. VMFA-121, originally an F/A-18 squadron was re-designated as the Marine Corps’ first F-35 squadron in 2012. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Lillian Stephens)