Interview What’s it like to fly an F-35 fighter jet? We interviewed the chief British test pilot on a uniquely British flying technique – and then had a play with a full cockpit simulator to find out for ourselves.

Squadron Leader Andy Edgell is the Royal Air Force’s top test pilot for the F-35 flight trials programme. A former Harrier pilot with sea time on both of the UK’s previous aircraft carriers, Her Majesty’s Ships Ark Royal and Illustrious, as well as operational deployments to Kandahar, Afghanistan, he is now based at the US Navy’s test base at Patuxent River. He spoke to The Register in London yesterday at an F-35 press event.

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