Northrop's F-35 Milestone

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Muhammed El-Hasan
on April 2, 2008 1:00 PM | | Comments (0) |

Northrop begins assembly of 1st F-35

Northrop Grumman Corp. has begun assembling the first F-35 Lightning II jet, marking the transition from demonstration to production of the Joint Strike Fighter, the defense giant said Tuesday.

Assembly work on the aircraft's center fuselage began March 24 at Northrop's Palmdale Manufacturing Center, with the loading of an all-composite air inlet duct into a special tooling structure called a jig.

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