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Name. >> as soon as youre putting the throttle forward, i mean, youre getting a kick in the pants -- >> reporter: you telling me its fast? >> its fast and its good, and its smooth and very responsive. its just an awesome airplane to fly. >> reporter: the pentagon just announced a small number of f-35s are deploying to europe this weekend for nato training exercises. the next stop for these f-35s is tbd, to be determined. in yuma, arizona, rick leventhal, fox news. arthel: okay, very good. thanks...

Theres plenty of critics. but the pilots are the biggest supporters. >> youre a fan of this jet? >> a big fan. ive been lucky never to fly some f-18s, during different tours, super hornets, this jet is by far just in a different league. >> as soon as you put the throttle forward, you get a kick in the pants. >> are you telling me its fast? >> its fast and good and smooth and very responsive. its just an awesome airplane to fly. >> the view, its in your helmet. you look down, you see the bottom o...

>> yeah sorry. the black box, the orange box, it records everything that the engineer does. so if the engineer blows the honor horn rings a bell pushes the throttle forward, theyll have the information from the black box or the orange box readily available. >> so investigators are now down playing the role of a projectile. we heard about the projectile could have been involved in the derailment. what do you think explains this crash then j.p. in your estimation? >> well the main thing that we ne...

Left-hand side of the trains windshield as the ntsb continues prior to the crash. now there are new doubts as well about information from the trains assistant conductor. she had told investigators she thought she heard the 32-year-old train engineer brandon bostian they had been hit prior to the crash. the ntsb says they went through all transmission and found nothing to suggestion bostian had did that. meanwhile, new evidence emerged from the trains black box. investigators say the data shows h...

Locomotive engines, indeed this is not a one-step process. >> thats right. the only way an operaable train can accelerate is if the engineer pushed the throttle forward, and thats what the event recorder does record throttle movement and we will look to see if that corresponds to the speed of the train. we talked to the engineer the person operating the train, and he was fully cooperative when we met with him on friday, and we also interviewed two assistant conductors on the train. >> but he doe...