Pacific Airshow: Flight demonstration of the F-35 Lightning II

Even those who need no more convincing of the flight and manoeuvrability of the single-engine F-35A Lightning II must be allowed to watch this video from this year's Pacific Airshow on 30 September over Huntington Beach in California south of Los Angeles! The U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Navy are more likely to be flying the F-35B and F-35C, but they are the same aircraft types. The US Air Force pilot, Major Kristin Wolfe, flies this aircraft as if the Swiss physicist and mathematician Daniel Bernoulli (1700 - 1782) had just retired. The high humidity also helps to visualise the airflow on the fuselage and wings. Flips, falling leaves and flares - it's all there. The naval aviator's heart leaps for joy.

Further very good recordings of this air show are available on the same channel.

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