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    HOW TO BUILD A FIGHTER JET

    Oct 03, 2019 5 minutes
    Words by Elizabeth Howell

    Just a short drive away from Dallas, Texas is the town of Fort Worth, home to the massive and super-secure facility where one of the world’s most advanced fighter jets is built.

    Lockheed Martin has thousands of people working here around the clock on the F-35s. In fact, about 18,000 employees work in the aeronautics business in Fort Worth. It’s too many to fit on the floor at one time, so people work in shifts. There are engineers, technicians and machinists. Then there are the many people that support them as they build the plane: the cleaners, the cafeteria workers, the security personnel and so many more.

    Visitors zip down the aisles in carts, carefully stopping at pedestrian crossings on the way. On either side of each aisle is a marvel of engineering – the F-35 coming together, piece by piece; wings, cockpits, tail fins,

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