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First Lt. Ezra Caplan and Charlie Smith examine a 12-percent scale model of the Navy variant of the F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter during a break in the final pre-production aerodynamics testing done on all F-35 variants at Arnold Engineering Development Center, Arnold Air Force Base, Tenn. Lieutenant Caplan is the AEDC Air Force project manager and Mr. Smith is the Aerospace Testing Alliance senior project engineer. (U.S. Air Force photo/Rick Goodfriend)