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Video: First Flight of the First U.K. F-35

Lockheed Martin test pilot Bill Gigliotti flew the F-35B aircraft, known as BK-1, which is also the first international F-35 to fly. Watch video of the event.

BK-1, the United Kingdom’s first Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II production aircraft, .

Lockheed Martin test pilot Bill Gigliotti took the during a sortie that lasted 45 minutes.

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