Posted on 02/07/2022 10:38:16 AM PST by BenLurkin
Leaked video captured the harrowing moment a fighter jet crashed onto the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson before plunging into the South China Sea last month.
The pilot was recovered after ejecting from the F-35C Lightning II, which was seen bobbing in the water without its canopy. Seven sailors were wounded in the Jan. 24 incident.
The footage captured the aircraft’s final moments from the Pilot’s Landing Aid Television, or PLAT, camera as well as from the ship’s so-called “island,” the command center for flight-deck operations.
The F-35C is seen banking as it descends rapidly toward the carrier, which was executing a turn at the time of the jet’s approach.
The landing signal officer, or LSO, yells “Power!” for the pilot to increase thrust, abort the landing and go around — but the fighter jet appears to strike the deck, bounces violently and skids as it erupts in flames.
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— Talking Barbie
Yes... there is a reason they do not dominate auto racing, speed boat racing, and other endeavors involving high performance machinery.
I’ve seen that.
” Just wait until they start blowing games.”
Well, I gotta admit, that would bump the ratings.
The navy says it is.
Between 1970 and 1995, the year before the first female F-14 pilot joined the fleet, approximately 120 Tomcats were lost. So if none of those loses were due to female pilots then why were all those men wrecking Tomcats?
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I keep seeing blips on twitter that the pilot had a reaction to the jab. Just bits and pieces here and there. Wouldn’t surprise me if it were just normal internet gossip or if it were the truth.
Interesting observation. If I were to guess, I would say mastery of high performance machines means you must be willing to push them just past the safe limit to find what those limits are and teach yourself to recover when you go past them.
I would wager that an overwhelming majority of women are unwilling to do that. So they're very good at repetitive, textbook situations, but anything outside the envelope and they're lost.
I just remember reading about how the Navy lowered the standards and that the first female pilots got away with mistakes that would have gotten a male pilot canned.
So what caused the earlier crashes if all those pilots were trained under supposedly higher standards?
Males, too.
Well said. I agree.
You have it backwards. There were males that crashed under those higher standards. And had males back then trained under today’s standards, there would have been FAR more of them dead.
Those crashes were IN SPITE of higher standards. Using today’s standards, lowered for diversity, it would have been abysmally more.
Also despite TopGun and other movies, it is not sheer guts that matters, it is the mindset that deeply understand the machine and it’s envelope, and can execute procedures accurately and aggressively. Very few women function well under extreme stress, men do. Women function better in a methodical environment.
This is the reason men historically were CEOs and had a female secretary. Horses for courses.
If they can't provide a source that can be verified, it's nothing but jackassin' at the expense of US military personnel.
Which I guess means that since 1996 U.S. Naval Aviation must have been a blood-bath what with all those women and lower standards and all. But I haven't seen any statistics supporting that. Do you have any?
You've read the Accident Investigation Report? The pilot? Aircrew and other military personnel that was topside that witnessed the crash?
No? So you're just making a bush league comment at the expense of US military personnel.
Unbelievable.
However, factoring the # of crashes relative to the # of flights, the manner of missions (like Vietnam vs. peacetime vs. Iraq), environmental factors, age of planes and modifications etc. would explain most of it. Likewise any debate using stats must take in the above and more into consideration.
That “mindset” thing is key and not everyone can do it. Having operated numerous kinds of high performance, powerful, machinery I call it wearing, or putting on the machine. Even when I climb into a backhoe there is a few seconds when my head shifts to wearing that machine, realizing that my every move is going to relocate something big. 100 or 1,000 horsepower in a pinky finger requires certain adjustment.
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