Caption: - Northrop Grumman has begun producing the first international F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, an F-35B short take off, vertical landing variant for the United Kingdom. In the photo, technicians at the company's Palmdale Manufacturing Center guide the first assembly for the plane's center fuselage, an all-composite air inlet duct, into a special tooling structure called a jig. The center fuselage is the core structure around which the F-35 aircraft is built.
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