Airframe BF-01 performed the F-35’s first vertical landing on Mar. 18, 2010, and the first vertical takeoff on May 10, 2013, at NAS Patuxent River. The first F-35B Lightning II STOVL (Short Take-Off Vertical Landing) jet to be built, and which performed the type’s first vertical take off and landing, was transported by a U.S. […]