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Meet The Test Pilot Flying The New F-35 Stealth Fighter

The UK's newest warplane has flown at the Farnborough International Airshow for the first time.
 
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will come into service with the RAF and the Royal Navy by the end of the decade.
 
Pilots from the US and the UK are now putting the plane through some rigorous testing, and the first British F35 will land on the new Queen Elizabeth Aircraft Carrier in 2018.
 
At the Farnborough Airshow Forces TV met Peter Wilson, one of the test pilots who'll be making that first landing. 
 
 

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