Posted on 02/07/2022 6:28:04 AM PST by Enlightened1
Was it ship’s company, or air wing personnel?
I’m a former blue-suiter, so I don’t know the ins and outs of Carrier operations.
Who would have access to the landing videos? Is that in a database that anybody can access, or is it only in the air wing area, or can it also be accessed by CIC? Who staffs CIC, the air wing or the ship’s complement?
If it’s not a command climate problem then the leaker is on his/her own. Sure the CO is responsible for everything, but that doesn’t mean every time something happens it is a hanging offense.
It looks like a very good site, I’ve bookmarked it. The article on the F35C is worth a read.
I’m guessing you have never heard of satire.
The article makes it pretty clear that he (the pilot) suffered a bad reaction to the “vaccine” at the wrong time. Heart inflammation, let’s hope he recovers.
Really? You have no idea if Real Raw News is legitimate?
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It HAS to be true. I saw it on Free Republic.
In the first segment of the video you can hear the engine spool up. However, that appears to be very late, the aircraft is almost at the fantail at that point. It is hard to synchronize with the second segment, but the added power appears to come late, after the pitch up. In the third segment you can hear the "wave off!" call just about the moment it starts the pitch up.
What I think happened - and I'm no expert, just an engineer and aviation buff with a bunch of friends who are pilots and some personal stick time - but take all that with a grain of salt, I don't even have a pilot's license. I just like to figure things out.
What I think happened was there was a little left drift which is not uncommon. Often there can be a disturbance in the air trailing behind the ship from the conning tower. The pilot corrected, maybe a bit hard having gotten "behind" the aircraft - letting it get too far left before initiating the correction. At low speeds a big input on the controls results in a large deflection of the control surfaces. This can create a lot of drag. Drag means loss of airspeed, which means loss of lift and increased sink rate. As my fighter pilot buddy (retired) points out - control inputs mean scrubbing speed. Funny how with those guys it always comes back to speed, they're obsessed with it. ;-) Anyway, the sink rate startled the pilot (?) and they pulled - pitched up to correct. More control inputs, more drag, more loss of airspeed. The pilot was very late in adding power.
So to summarize - it wasn't one event or even one mistake, it was a chain of events/mistakes, as most accidents are.
Slight lateral drift on short final - routine.
A little behind the aircraft, large control input - not great. Getting "behind the aircraft" happens, but on short final almost always means a go-around.
Big control input without adding power - oversight by pilot.
Pitch up to arrest sink rate without adding power - oversight by pilot.
By the time the pilot added power, the incident was virtually inevitable. Not enough altitude nor lateral separation to recover the sink rate.
The number of ship accidents and naval aviation accidents have disproportionately involved apparent social promotion (not only based on gender), including the USS Fitzgerald and USS McCain incidents.
Gotta agree with ya.
Lately it seems as if a lot of FReepers could use some attitude adjustment.
The list of FReepers I refuse to have anything to do with is growing. But hey, evidently JR is OK with what’s been going on here and it is HIS sandbox.
The pilot saw doctors on deck waiting to vaccinate him, so he made the wise choice to abort landing and eject to avoid the deathly injection.
Hey Mav, do you still have the card for that truck driving school?
What is going on that someone would leak this? It should not be difficult all to find out who. Someone's career is about to be over.
The U.S. faces a race to beat China in recovering the high-tech military plane as Beijing could try to capitalize on its territorial claims in the South China Sea and say it's salvaging the craft for environmental purposes.
The article also states it the second time in three months that an F-35 has been lost at sea.
The Russians did it!!
I’m far from an expert, but I think carrier ops have always been a high skill / high risk effort.
How do you tell which are and which aren't? Every time it involves a woman or an African American it's because they were promoted beyond their capabilities based on race and gender only? And every time it's a white guy it was just bad luck?
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