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Catching lightning

Airman 1st Class Johnny Patterson, 58th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron F-35 Lightning II crew chief, guides Col. Charles Wallace II, 33rd Fighter Wing F-35 Academic Training Center director and F-35 pilot, after completing his first sortie in the aircraft on Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., Dec. 5, 2014. Patterson was in the first class of pipeline students qualified as F-35 Lightning II crew chiefs. While other crew chiefs on the flight line cross-trained from fourth-generation weapon systems, Patterson’s class has only ever worked with the F-35. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Marleah Robertson)
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Catching lightning

An instructor pilot in an F-35 Lightning II flies overhead to watch Col. Charles Wallace II, 33rd Fighter Wing F-35 Academic Training Center director and F-35 pilot, perform a touch-and-go during his first sortie in the aircraft on Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., Dec. 5, 2014. The ATC mission is to train Air Force, Marine, Navy and international partner operators and maintainers of the F-35. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Marleah Robertson)
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Lt. Scott Cleveland, assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 101, is directed to park the F-35C Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter after landing at Naval Air Station Oceana. the aircraft will provide fleet aviators and maintainers an opportunity to view the aircraft and receive briefings from the flight crew and maintainers. The aircraft is the carrier variant of the Lockheed Martin built aircraft and is assigned to VFA-101 based at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Kayla King/Released)
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First F-35 Lightning II

F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter crew chief, Tech. Sgt. Brian West, watches his aircraft approach for the first time at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., July 14. Aircraft 0747 is DoD’s newest aircraft. (U.S. Air Force photo/Samuel King Jr.)
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