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The first F-35 Joint Strike Fighter came alive with electrical power on 7 September, as technicians at the Lockheed Martin facility in Fort Worth, Texas, initiated the incremental process of testing the aircraft's circuits, electronic components, and wiring. The aircraft's electrical power system consists of the electrical power generating system and the electrical power management system. Overall control of the system is supplied by redundant software operating in the F-35's vehicle-management computers. Software developed by Lockheed Martin provides overall control of the system. The first test aircraft, a conventional takeoff and landing F-35A, is scheduled to make its inaugural flight in the third quarter of 2006.
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