F-35 Four Ship Take Offs and Landing at Eglin AFB
07/18/2015
07/18/2015: In this video, F-35s are seen taking off and landing in a four-ship package. Credit Video: 33rd Fighter Wing:7/16/15
RAF and Dutch Operations at the 33rd Fighter Wing
07/16/2015
07/16/2015:In this video, the RAF is seen during some operational training with the USMC at the 33rd Fighter Wing at Eglin AFB. Group Squadron Leader Nichols explains the approach. Also shown in the video are the Dutch engage with the USAF on the F-35A. And as Nichols explained in our…
Dutch F-35 Flight: 2nd Foreign Operator of the F-35
01/07/2014
01/06/2014: Video shows Dutch pilot flying the F-35 at Eglin AFB. Credit: 33rd Fighter Wing:12/18/13 Maj. Laurens J.W. Vijge, Royal Netherlands Air Force F-35 Integrated Training Center training lead, completed his first flight after 210 hours of classroom training and 13 flights in the simulators. "The jet handles great and is very…
The F-35C Arrives at Eglin AFB
06/27/2013
06/26/2013: According to a 33rd Fighter Wing Press release on June 22, 2013: The U.S. Navy’s Strike Fighter Squadron VFA-101 received the Navy’s first F-35C Lightning II carrier variant aircraft from Lockheed Martin today. U.S. Navy pilots and maintainers from VFA-101 are now training at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.,…
F-35B lifts off for first flight at Eglin
05/23/2012
5/22/2012 - EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (Press Release) An F-35B Lightning II made its first flight at Eglin Air Force Base today, two months after 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing officially introduced the Marine Corps' fifth generation fighter to the world at the 33rd Fighter Wing. [caption id="attachment_39225" align="alignleft" width="240"…
Off Probation and Into the USMC Inventory: F-35Bs at Eglin
01/22/2012
01/21/2012: F-35B Turns a Page BF-6, BF-7 and BF-8 are now at Eglin AFB and are USMC owned aircraft. As Col. Tomassetti, Deputy 33rd Wing Commander has underscored: Now we can stop talking about what we can do and start showing what we can do. We move out of the…
Shaping Adaptive Innovation for the Warfighter
01/19/2011
The Air Armament Center Functions as the Linchpin An Interview with Randy Brown, Norma Taylor, and Wally Messmore 01/19/2011 - The Air Armament Center at Eglin AFB designs weapons for the U.S. and allied warfighters. We earlier described a key effort to modify the Small Diameter Bomb to provide a…