BAE Systems has completed and delivered the 50th rear fuselage, plus vertical and horizontal tails, on the F-35 fighter to Lockheed Martin in Texas.
Tim Boness, production director for the F-35 project commented on the small but arguably important milestone: “It sounds like a drop in the ocean, but we’ve come a long way since we started manufacturing back in 2004. We are ready to manufacture thousands more sets at our state of the art machining and assembly centre.”…
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