photo #1077384

A Japanese Self Defense Force Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II, 69-8702, flies over Arizona. The generic land-based and primary variant, the A model has an internal gun. The F-35A has the highest G-rating (9.0+) coupled with the best thrust-to-weight performance (1.07) of the three F-35 variants. Photo by Ted Carlson/Fotodynamics