Royal Navy | Aircraft carriers make history on simultaneous F-35B Lightning jet operations

Britain’s two new aircraft carriers have been conducting simultaneous F-35B fast jet operations for the first time – thousands of miles apart. Separated by 7,000 miles, HMS Prince of Wales in the North Sea and HMS Queen Elizabeth in the Pacific have been launching and recovering the stealth strike fighter on round-the-clock sorties. Until now, the ships have embarked the fifth-generation jets but never have the two 65,000-tonne behemoths launched the fighters from their flight decks at the same time. That’s now changed with HMS Prince of Wales exercising with the RAF’s 207 Squadron in waters close to the UK, while, on the other side of the world, HMS Queen Elizabeth carries out flying operations over the Pacific with her jets from 617 Squadron and VMFA-211 of the US Marine Corps. Read more: http://ow.ly/DJhB50Gag11 SUBSCRIBE: Royal Navy ► http://bit.ly/2JlOGwW Royal Marines ► http://bit.ly/2xxnCGe --- LATEST NEWS ► http://bit.ly/2J5CXmP --- INSTAGRAM ►  / royalnavy   FACEBOOK ►   / royalnavy   TWITTER ►   / royalnavy   --- JOIN US: Aviation: http://bit.ly/2LREMS9 Engineering: http://bit.ly/2Hdu6tx Logistics: http://bit.ly/2kH4mwJ Medical: http://bit.ly/2Jqyjiw Warfare: http://bit.ly/2Jkr1wO Royal Marines: http://bit.ly/2kMxgMd