AN ITALIAN FIRST: THE F-35 CROSSES THE ATLANTIC AND LANDS AT PAX RIVER, FEBRUARY 5, 2016

At 1430 on February 5th, the first Italian made F-35A flew into the pattern at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Maryland and touched down. Known to all Naval Aviators as “Pax” this historic flight of an Italian fighter pilot, wearing his cold water survival suit, flew the single seat, single engine F-35A flew in the dead of winter over the North Atlantic.

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