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Fort Worth TX (SPX) Apr 15, 2010 AF-1, the first optimized Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II conventional takeoff and landing test plane, rolls out of the F-35 Final Finishes Facility sporting a new hand-painted fin flash on its vertical stabilizers. While at the facility, the plane also received highly accurate robot-applied coatings. The stealth jet flew twice before entering an intensive period of ground testing, and is preparing for its return to flight and ferry to the Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. test site.
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Polish leader's plane lies mangled in 'forest of death'Smolensk, Russia (AFP) April 10, 2010 The red and white tail fin caked with mud stood out like a beacon in the grey, fog-smothered forest in western Russia where polish President Lech Kaczynski's plane crashed Saturday. Painted the colours of Poland's flag, it was an eerie reminder of another tragedy - the massacre of 22,000 Polish officers and other elites by Soviet secret police in 1940 that Kaczynski was travelling to commem ... read more |
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