They're all following the script.

DoDBuzz has the story up about the abbreviated flight that the F-35 took down at Eglin.  Read it here.

I won't even bother to quote from it.  Its just a bunch of mush about the short flight...how it represents the problems that the program has been having...yada, yada, yada.

It makes the critics smile but the only reason why this story is on my radar (besides getting tired of seeing it regurgitated all over the internet) is the fact that many outstanding defense reporters are missing the larger, more important story.

Someone, somewhere has accelerated this program. 

We will see flight training at Eglin this year.

Pilots will start getting checked out on this airplane THIS year.  

That's the real significance of the flight yesterday.  And no one in the mainstream media gets it.

That's just unreal.