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UK's first transatlantic F-35 delivery flight delayed by weather

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Re: Clouds are no joke - never have been ...

"They surmised the plane hit something while trying top restart after emerging from clouds."

The earlier merlin engines couldn't handle negative G and would suffer fuel starvation and conk out**. Could possibly have been the cause of him having to restart.

** Proving that even in the "good old days", the UK armed forces weren't free of almighty design cockups.

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