Manufacturing work has started at BAE Samlesbury on the first F-35 Lightning II aircraft that will be delivered to the UK Ministry of Defence.
Quentin Davies, UK Minister of Defence Equipment and Support, marked the occasion by signing the F-35 frame before it was loaded into the assembly jig at the BAE Systems site in Samlesbury, Lancashire. The frame will come out of the jig in Quarter 3 2010 as an assembled aft fuselage — part of the first…
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