On April 24th, 2024, a CH-53L Sea King carried a Navy F-35C from Patuxent River Naval Air station in Maryland to Joint Base Maguire-Dix-Lakehurst. Mid-air refueling was part of the evolution.
If anyone knows the Marines who performed this evolution, please get them in touch with me.
That's an awful lot of expensive hardware to be flying around the sky! Fantastic air lift exercise, I guess, impressive expertise and precision.
Any reason they didn't just fly the F35 from one base to the other? ;-)
Aw yeah. Beautiful manoeuvre.