On the same day that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates placed the F-35B on a two-year -- and apparently rhetorical -- probation, a flight test aircraft did something that hadn't been done since Augus: It landed vertically. The BF-2 model completed the first vertical landing on 6 January after reliability problems with hinge doors shut down vertical testing about five months ago.
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