A still winter morning, but the silence is shattered by the roar of an F-35A getting airborne from Hill AFB, Utah, the afterburner crackling as the noise of the Pratt & Whitney F135 engine reverberates off the nearby mountains. In the cockpit is Capt Kristin ‘BEO’ Wolfe, the new F-35A Demonstration Team commander and pilot. During this practice display, she puts on a fierce demonstration, taking the Lightning to the absolute edge of its aerobatic envelope.
A still winter morning, but the silence is shattered by the roar of an F-35A getting airborne from Hill AFB, Utah, the afterburner crackling as the noise of the Pratt & Whitney F135 engine reverberates off the nearby mountains. In the cockpit is Capt Kristin ‘BEO’ Wolfe, the new F-35A Demonstration Team commander and pilot. During this practice display, she puts on a fierce demonstration, taking the Lightning to the absolute edge of its aerobatic envelope.
On September 4, 2019, the US Air Force announced that the F-35A Demonstration Team would be reassigned to the 388th Fighter Wing at Hill AFB, Utah. The team started in 2016 as the F-35A Heritage Flight, but it transitioned to a full demonstration team in early 2019 as part of the 56th Fighter Wing at Luke AFB, Ari…