F-35 critic: Air Guard overconfident on plane's safety

The back-and-forth volley between critics and backers of a plan to base F-35 fighter jets in Vermont continued Tuesday, featuring new claims about safety issues involving the plane. Pierre Sprey, who helped design the F-16 jet for the Pentagon in the 1960s and 1970s, said the F-35 is not being built fast enough, or being flown enough, to work out any glitches by 2020, when the Vermont Air Guard hopes to begin flying it.

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