Positive first inspection

Volume 48, No. 12, July 13, 2006

ON HIS first visit to the United States as Minister for Defence, Dr Brendan Nelson stopped in to the Lockheed Martin Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) facility in Texas last month.

Dr Nelson met with Lockheed Martin executives and members of the JSF team and saw first-hand the world’s most advanced multi-role combat aircraft.

Dr Nelson’s trip also took him to Washington, London and Belgium where he met with various Defence officials.

Pictured in front of the first production JSF aircraft at the Lockheed Martin plant, Fort Worth, Texas during the Minister’s visit is (from left) DGNACC AIRCDRE John Harvey, CCDG LTGEN David Hurley, Dr Brendan Nelson, Lockheed Martin Executive Vice President Tom Burbage, Australian Ambassador to the US Dennis Richardson and Secretary of Defence Ric Smith.

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