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摘要

THE LAST test flight of the F-35's System Development and Demonstration (SDD) phase took place on April 11,2018. The test mission, flown by BAE Systems' test pilot Peter Wilson in F-35C CF-02 from Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, involved external carriage of two 2,000lb GBU-31 Joint Direct Attack Munitions (on stations 3 and 9) and two AIM-9X Sidewinder air-to-air missiles (on stations 1 and 11). Speaking at the Sea-Air-Space Exposition at National Harbor, Maryland, the F-35 Program Executive Officer Vice-Admiral Mat Winter said the SDD phase had accrued 9,000 flight hours and 67,000 test points. To date, 82% of the specification verification has been completed, with 100% due to be completed by the end of the year.