JSF Notches First F-35B Free Hover

HOVERING: Lockheed Martin’s first F-35B short-takeoff-and-vertical-landing (Stovl) aircraft demonstrated the capability to hover freely March 17 during a test flight at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. The aircraft took off conventionally, then pilot Graham Tomlinson slowed it to 60 knots and...

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