美国海军 VX-23 空中测试与评估中队 F-35B“闪电”II 系统发展与验证机（BAE公司试飞员彼得·威尔逊驾驶）在帕塔克森特河海军航空站进行首次滑跃起飞实验，以确保这种飞机可以兼容英国和意大利航空母舰。（The F-35 Lightning II Pax River Integrated Test Force from Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 23 conducted the first-ever ski jump of an F-35B Lightning II short take-off/vertical-landing (STOVL) variant June 19. During flight 298, BAE test pilot Peter Wilson launched aircraft BF-04 from a land-based ski jump located aboard NAS Patuxent River. This test is the first of a series of U.K. ski jump events scheduled for 2015. Lockheed Martin photo by Andy Wolfe.）

美国海军 VX-23 空中测试与评估中队 F-35B“闪电”II 系统发展与验证机（BAE公司试飞员彼得·威尔逊驾驶）在帕塔克森特河海军航空站进行首次滑跃起飞实验，以确保这种飞机可以兼容英国和意大利航空母舰。（The Pax River ITF conducts the first-ever ski jump of an F-35 Lightning II during flight 298 of aircraft BF-04 aboard NAS Patuxent River June 19, 2015. The multi-phase ski jump tests will determine the aircraft’s compatibility with ski jumps aboard British and Italian aircraft carriers. Curved at its leading edge, a ski jump ramp simultaneously launches aircraft upward and forward, allowing aircraft to take off from shorter carriers with more weight and less end-speed.）

美国海军 VX-23 空中测试与评估中队的 F-35B“闪电”II 在武器分离实验中投掷英国“宝石路”IV 精确制导炸弹，飞行员是英国空军少校安迪·安吉尔，此前该型炸弹只装备“狂风”战轰和“台风”战机。（The F-35 Lightning II Pax River Integrated Test Force from Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 23 conducted the first weapons separation test of the UK’s Paveway IV precision-guided bomb from an F-35B Lightning II short take-off/vertical-landing (STOVL) variant June 12. During flight 461 over the NAVAIR Atlantic Test Ranges, RAF Squadron Leader Andy Edgell dropped two inert Paveway IV bombs from aircraft BF-03. This test is the first of a series of UK weapons separation events scheduled for 2015.）

美国海军陆战队 F-35B“闪电”II 在夜间空中加油实验中打开加力飞行，其装备的F135发动机是目前世界上推力最大的军用加力涡扇发动机。（F-35B Twilight Refueling. An F-35B during twilight refueling testing.）

美国海军陆战队 F-35B“闪电”II 系统发展与验证机在爱德华兹空军基地的进行侧风垂降试验。（An F-35B performs Crosswind Testing at Edwards AFB.）

美国海军陆战队 F-35B“闪电”II 外挂“宝石路”IV 完成颤振试验后飞越帕塔克森特河。（BF-02 Flt 356 piloted by Lt Chris Karapostoles flys a flutter test mission with Paveway IV's from NAS Patuxent River, MD.）

美国海军陆战队 F-35B“闪电”II 在马里兰州帕塔克森特河附近空域进行外挂满载试飞。（Lockheed Martin test pilot Billie Flynn puts F-35B test aircraft BF-02 into pre-contact position behind a US Air Force KC-135 tanker on the range near NAS Patuxent River, Maryland.）

美国海军陆战队 F-35B“闪电”II 在莫哈韦沙漠进行夜间空中加油实验。（PAX River F-35 Test Pilot Billy Flynn performs twlight refueling with a B model F35 with a KC-135 in the skies over the Mojave Desert. F-35 Test Pilot Billie Flynn performs twilight refueling with an F-35B with a KC-135.）

美国海军陆战队第二架（BF-02）F-35B“闪电”II 系统发展与验证机在马里兰东海岸进行非对称外挂测试。（BF-02 Flt 393 | LT Chris "TJ" Karapostoles piloting BF-02 during assymetrical stores testing (Gun Pod, GBU-12's, AIM-9X) over the Eastern Shore of MD on 26 may 2015.）

美国海军陆战队 VMFAT-501“军阀”训练中队两架 F-35B 联合攻击战斗机在空中加油训练中飞越大西洋北卡罗来纳沿岸。（Naval aviators with Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron 501 fly above Eastern North Carolina inside of F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters during training with Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 252, April 14, 2015. VMFAT-501 is the Corps’ only active training squadron for the F-35B, which provides a multi-role, fifth-generation fighter attack capability for the Marine Air-Ground Task Force. VMFAT-501 is based at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, S.C., and VMGR-252 is based at MCAS Cherry Point.）