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F-35 BF-1 Hover Pit STOLV Mode Ground Testing

The F-35B Lightning II tethered to a specially instrumented hover pit with its powerful engine running, tests its propulsion system in short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) mode on May 25, 2008 at Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth, Texas.