Maybe if the AF spends more money on this ? /sarc
And this major flaw wasn’t discovered during the many testing of this cropduster
Oh, stop - all kinds of things can happen to ANY aircraft at ANY time.
Lightening is a problem for any aircraft. Sheesh.
Does Popular Mechanics have any credibility anymore? Just another rag the Libtards have ruined.
On the bright side, it wasnt named the F-35 Cloud.
“A typical OBIGGS system diverts air from the aircraft engine and separates the nitrogen, injecting it into the jet’s fuel tanks.”
Is there a reason why they just do not use a tank of compressed Nitrogen?
Seems like a simpler process...
Yet another “writer” that doesn’t know what words mean. It’s NON-flammable nitrogen, putz!
Who actually wrote and edited this??
“.... The more inflammable nitrogen present the less flammable oxygen, helping reduce the possibility of fuel tank explosions.”
What the actual F@$k does that sentence say?
This (sometimes) flying scrapheap is a huge warning about what happens when you go all-in on design-by-committee. Some genius decided one plane could do everything for every branch of the US military and do so cheaper and better. What we got instead was a massively expensive Mr. Potato Head with wings.
I’d put 1 F-22 up against 10 F-35s any day of the week and twice on Sunday. Why? It’s purpose-built for doing one job better than anything else ever constructed by mankind. It’s decades beyond any technology anyone else has. You make something like that and you can count on it for a long time. The A-10 still does its job better than anything else too.
The F35 is a real example of propaganda over reality. It has to “succeed” no matter what the cost in dollars and dead pilots.
Now that's the irony of ironies!
Author Kyle Mizokami wrote "Ironically, this is the second time the Lightning II has been prohibited from flying near actual lightning, after an earlier problem was discovered with the OBIGGS in the early 2010s."
No, Kyle, that is not ironic. That is coincidental. I'm surprised Kyle didn't work a "literally" into his story.
Ah, popular mechanix, those tech experts again.
“...F-35 jets should socially distance from lightning...”
Seriously?
Imagine what an EMP would do to it.
I hope the ejection process is analog.
Should have just stayed with the F-22!!!
Say WHaaaat?
[?]present[?] = "displaces"?
Is simple understanding of physics & mechanics or command of English no longer required for writers at Popular Mechanics?
? What's next? Filling fire extinguishers with gasoline?
Thank you, Department of "Education" and scumbag Teachers' Unions...
TXnMA
The more inflammable nitrogen...
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What? Nitrogen has a flammability rating of zero.