美国佛罗里达海岸
Photo by U.S. Air Force/Staff Sgt. Joely M. Santiago | 2014-05-21 17:29:05 | NJ-103/168736 (cn CF-09) ; VM-01/168057 (cn BF-06) ; EG
2014年5月21日,美国空军第33战斗机联队3架 F-35"闪电"II 战斗机编队飞越埃格林空军基地附近的一座大桥,编队由右至左分别为:美国海军F-35C,美国海军陆战队F-35B以及美国空军F-35A。第33战斗机联队归属空军培训司令部(AETC),驻扎佛罗里达州埃格林空军基地,专门培训海军、海军陆战队、空军和盟军的F-35飞行员和维护人员,配备机型涵盖常规起降、短距起飞、垂直起降、舰载型等所有F-35型号。该联队的 F-35 机队已累计飞行超过5000架次,占全部 F-35 飞行架次的三分之一。(A United Kingdom F-35B Lightning II flies alongside a Navy F-35C, a Marine Corps F-35B, and an Air Force F-35A from the 33rd Fighter Wing in the skies above Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. May 21. The F-35s at Eglin AFB surpassed 5,000 combined training sorties May 28, contributing more than a third of all sorties in the Department of Defense program. The 33rd FW F-35 Integrated Training Center trains F-35 A/B/C Lightning II pilots, maintainers, air battle managers and intelligence personnel for the Marine Corps, the Navy, the Air Force and, in the future, at least eight international partners.)