The first two of an eventual 20 F-35 jets arrived
last Thursday at the Vermont Air National Guard
base in South Burlington, the first Guard unit to
receive the next-generation fighter.
Guard members and friends clapped as the
planes flew over the airport for the first time,
doing several flyovers after the three-hour flight
from the factory in Fort Worth, Texas.
The delivery follows years of work and planning,
as well as missions in the Guard’s previous
aircraft, F-16s that flew continuously for weeks
over New York after the Sept. 11 attacks and
in combat tours in Iraq and elsewhere in the
Middle East.NEXT-GENERATION F-35 FIGHTER JETS GO TO NATIONAL GUARD UNIT
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