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This article appeared in the January 2001 issue of Code One Magazine.
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22 November: Final Test Flight
 Company test pilot Tom Morgenfeld ferries the Lockheed Martin X-35A on its final test flight from Edwards AFB to Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company in Palmdale where team members begin converting it to the STOVL X-35B variant. The STOVL aircraft fitted with a revolutionary shaft-driven lift-fan propulsion system will begin vertical-flight testing in spring 2001. The X-35A flight test program finishes with twenty-seven flights and achieves supersonic speeds, twenty degrees maximum angle of attack, and a maximum altitude of 34,000 feet.
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