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Article: NORTHROP BEGINS ASSEMBLY OF 1ST F-35 DEFENSE: PRODUCTION OF FIGHTER JET'S FUSELAGE BEGAN MARCH 24 4,000 OF THE PLANES ARE EXPECTED TO BE BUILT.(Business)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- April 2, 2008
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Byline: Muhammed El-Hasan
Staff Writer
PALMDALE -- Northrop Grumman Corp. has begun assembling the first F-35 Lightning II jet, marking the transition from demonstration to production of the Joint Strike Fighter, the defense giant said Tuesday.
Assembly work on the aircraft's center fuselage began March 24 at Northrop's Palmdale Manufacturing Center, with the loading of an all-composite air inlet duct into a special tooling structure called a jig.
The assembly of the center fuselage "is significant because it shows the F-35 program is successfully transitioning from the system development and demonstration phase into the production phase," Janis Pamiljans, ...
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