With a price tag of just over $100 million, the F-35B from Lockheed Martin is equipped with the most powerful engine of any jet in the world, as well as the most advanced sensor suite of any fighter jet in history. The Marine Corps Air Station in Beaufort, South Carolina, is the sole location for the training required to fly this unique plane. This training is focused on teaching pilots how to perform short-distance takeoffs and how to land the plane vertically like a helicopter. Pilots also learn to master technology and utilize gear unique to the jet. In March, Insider was granted exclusive access to the Air Station, where we observed these pilots in training.
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How Fighter Pilots Train To Fly The Marine Corps’ F-35B | Boot Camp
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Read: "Marines say a deployed F-35 stealth fighter squadron clocked nearly 5,000 hours without any mishaps": https://trib.al/avD8q2z
So dramatic…. Its easy when you lear it. As is everything.
I took flying lessons, it’s hard enough to aviate
Navigate, and communicate no less managing all the weapon systems, and other ”toys” they aircraft has. My hats off to these aviators!
Please begin training asap.
so good seeing u fly again, man!
0:14 history of US jets*
3rd generation US pilot is pretty op
The comfort of being out of range, the beauty of milliatry life, no right no wrong only tin cans and cordite….
Jesus died for you bro
I will like all this powerful fighters hets to be mine
God Bless our troops
Seems pretty easy
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clean yo camera sensor
*%
I'll take the harrier instead
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now interview a maintainer. we have different views
In 2026 you have to wonder which country/ state in the world would want to take on this level of competence.
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I was wondering if Marines flew Fighters
They have these at my base currently in Japan, really loud
How do fighter pilots receive their call sign?
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Only the Best Pilots can fly this!! 😎
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Down Push
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What’s the Air Force for if every other branch has at least one air unit
You know there are such a thing as helicopters
So that’s where all our tax dollars are going
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Fighter pilot? Yawn. Marine AND fighter pilot? 😰
Its ridiculous that one hour of flight time means up to 6 hours of debrief time. I imagine when your friends ar home ask, "well you have been at the attack squadron for a year now. Whats it like flying" and you reply "I dont really know. Ive only flown twice and that was practicing landings. I spent 30 hours in debrief though and that is boring." Why develop a fighter jet that has so much time spent on debriefing. You shouldn't have to study a mission to fly it. Take some time and look at the map and weather and go but no Lockheed had to develop a plane that requires 4 hours of study time before a one hour flight and 5 hours of debrief. Ridiculous but right on par for the war machine.
I admire these pilots. They are a different breed. It would have to be the best job in the world. I had the opportunity to fly an older Russian made fighter. I smiled for a month!
The amount of things we create to advance the aerodynamics of what we could do while still being conscious. This is crazy