Smith Flies
    27 June 2011: First Eglin Training Pilot Flies
        Photo by Angel DelCueto
 
    
        
        
    1,000th SDD Flight
    6 July 2011:  1,000th System Development and Demonstration, or SDD, Test Flight
        Photo by Paul Weatherman
 
    
        
        
    Edwards Adds A Pilot
    6 July 2011:  Lt. Col. Dwayne Opella Becomes Twenty-Sixth Pilot To Fly The F-35
        Photo by David Henry
 
    
        
        
    First Flight With No Control Room Support
    7 July 2011: First F-35 Maturity Flight
        Photo by Darin Russell
 
    
        
        
    F-35C Returns To Pax
    9 July 2011: CF-2 Returns To Pax From Lakehurst, New Jersey
        Photo by Michael Jackson
 
    
        
        
    First Formation Flight With No Control Room Support
    13 July 2011: First Maturity Formation Flights
        Photo by Tom Reynolds
 
    
        
        
    F-35C Goes To Pax
    16 July 2011: BF-5 Ferries To Pax
        Photo by Liz Kaszynski
 
    
        
        
    AF-2 Lands On Wet Runway
    19 July 2011: First Wet Runway Landing
        Photo by Tom Reynolds
 
    
        
        
    500th For 2011
    21 July 2011: F-35 Test Force Completes 500th Flight In 2011
        Photo by Darin Russell
 
    
        
        
    100th VL For BF-1
    25 July 2011: 100th Vertical Landing For BF-1
        Photo by Michael Jackson
 
    
        
        
    CF-3 To Lakehurst
    26 July 2011: CF-3 Goes To Lakehurst For Catapult Testing
        Photo by Phaedra Loftis
 
    
        
        
    First F-35 Catapult Launch
    27 July 2011: First F-35 Catapult Launch
        Photo by Andy Wolfe