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Sunday, April 12, 2009

F-35B to replace the RAF's Harrier jump jet

Built by Lockheed Martin, this new fighter-bomber has latest in Star Wars-style technology and most powerful engine so far

F-35 Lightning IIIt was the most advanced fighter jet, capable of vertical takeoff and landing, and a triumph of British engineering.

But that was then. Today, 40 years after the Harrier jump jet first came into service, the last of the planes are about to be phased out.

The pin-up of aircraft enthusiasts and the hero of the Falklands war will be a hard act to follow. So what is riding the Harrier’s slipstream?

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