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Pratt & Whitney delivered its 100th F119 engine, power for the Lockheed Martin F/A-22 Raptor air dominance fighter, to the US Air Force on 24 November. The engine delivery took place during a ceremony at the company's Middletown, Connecticut, engine assembly facility. Two F119-PW-100 engines power the Lockheed Martin F/A-22, and the type now has more than 8,000 engine flight hours of experience in the Raptor. An evolution of the F119, the F135, will power the new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, and engineers successfully completed that engine's first test run with the use of its thrust augmenting afterburner on 8 November.
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