From Aviation Week:
The F-word dropped by US Navy Capt Wade Knudson, Joint Strike Fighter development program manager, at our DTAR conference on Thursday was "fall" as in that the first vertical landing test for the F-35B version of the Joint Strike Fighter will take place in "late summer or early fall".
Given the general principle of such time brackets, which is that the later date is usually the time when something is most likely to happen, we're looking at a first vertical landing in September or October.
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