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!
This IS From a video game, and it was debunked here on FR months ago.
It isn't.
I sure you did enjoy it.
And I'm sure you'll have fun spending the $30MM USD (Thirty Million US Dollars) that is being deposited in certified funds to your personal account of which you may be keeping half for you trouble and assistance in the aid of this dispossessed Nigerian Prince related to you by fortuitous marriage of your lost second cousin. Sent to your attention by the same source named in former e-mail.
(Was that e-mail by any chance signed by Ed Mezvinsky? From a server hosting "Clintonmail.net"?)
Sorry. I’ve always been too trusting.
WOW!
I don’t think the Captain would have been impressed though.
Just postulating.
I’ll bet!
the author!!
of the email!!!
can’t possibly use any more hyperbole!!!!
and exclamation points!!!!!
OK, now I’ll watch. But my expectations are astronomically high.
OK, watched it. Fake. Debunked many times here on FR.
Video game, they have a F-117 up on the deck forward, not exactly a carrier aircraft.
It s from a video game. FAKE
This CG sequence has been around for a long time. Clever, but not real.
So fake.
now i feel like an idiot.
Why the hell would someone post something fake and say it was real?
No need for any apology. It could have (and obviously did) fool many.
Same way it happened the first time the link to this video was posted on F.R.
Website owners (not F.R.) sell advertising space to make money. That space is often made up of links to video of cats, or THE 25 CRAZIEST (any noun here will do), or videos just like the one this thread is about. People click on the link, go the the link, watch the video, then.... put it on FR because it's 'cool'. The website owners (their advertisers actually) change up this 'links' to keep people's interest. Eventually, they recycle those links. So, it's because this video is now in 'popular' use as LINK-CLICK BAIT.
Fake but accurate?
P.S. This one (per the FR POSTER) came from an email.
So someone else saw it, told them it was real, and then they posted it here.
You would be surprised how often something like this happens, over the years.
Some parts of capitalism are really annoying. But the alternative is worse :)
thanks for sharing that.
i’ve been sucked into the 25 most a bunch of times, usually about women :)
YOu’ll notice the “power bars” or energy or whatnot, at the bottom left and right of the video screen. Gaming video.
A cleverly done CGI video.
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