Posted on 10/24/2015 12:49:58 PM PDT by gorush
23 seconds long ... WATCH THIS GUYS!!
Read this text before watching the video - F-35 unintentional loop at takeoff on a carrier.
The video is only a few seconds long. This guy clearly has brass and you know the sailors on the flight deck had a cow when they saw this unfold in front of them. Intentional? Hardly!
This is unbelievable! F-35 unintentional loop at takeoff, a real "check your laundry" event.
A supremely well-trained US Navy pilot, ice running in his veins instead of blood, fully regains control of his $70 million, F-35 joint strike force fighter, after a problematic vertical take-off attempt... Watch as the rear vertical thruster fires to cause the problem.
There's nothing about this that the pilot enjoys. If he could have ejected at 100' upside down and lived, he would have. Looks like the afterburner kicks in while still vectored for vertical takeoff. Lockheed would call this a "software malfunction" and do a little more "regressive testing". This is a good demonstration of power-to-weight ratio of this aircraft! And talk about stability control... wow!
If he didn't come out of the loop wings-level, it probably would have been bad news; maybe taking some of the carrier with him! Add to this flying through your own exhaust, which can lead to equipment malfunctions, as in "flame out". The F-35 is single engine aircraft with vertical takeoff/landing capability, but it has the aerodynamics of a Steinway piano at zero airspeed. This is the most unbelievable piece of flying you will ever see in your life.
This guy's coolness saved a 70 million-dollar aircraft! On the other hand, he might not have had time to react to anything except just ride it.
I bet you'll watch it at least 2 times!
Looks like it’s from a video game.
Hoss
WTH!!!!
is this real or faked?!?!?!
i never saw anything like that in my life!!
they say it’s got a million problems and loses in dogfights to everybogy in practice, cant go fast enough when needs to etc
looks pretty dam good in that video!!!!!
I guess it could be, one never knows anymore.
Pretty sure it is... I’ve seen it floating around the net for a while....
Hoss
Wasn’t aware the F35 had forward vectored thrust......
Video game extract, me thinks. :)
Obviously from a video game.
Thanks.
Big difference between this potential top gun instructor and Juan McAinal.
I don’t think that is possible. It seems like the thrust from the bottom of the aircraft to provide lift to the aircraft would have planted it into the deck when it turned upside down with no lift on the wings.
fake
Watch the direction of travel of the shadow.
ROFLMAO!
Thought you’d enjoy this darling, SG! ;)
Looks like the afterburner kicks in while still vectored for vertical takeoff.
I did see a flare toward the rear of the craft just before it nosed down. If this video is for real, it must have been a real oh-$&@% moment for the pilot.
The Navy does not call people that fly airplanes pilots. Pilots steer ships. Aviators fly airplanes in the Navy. Jus' sayin'.
The stoval version unit cost is more like $250 million per copy.
utterly fake. a poorly done animation
facebook? No thanks.
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