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Aviation Ping!...................
Aircraft Probably went to sea I would hope
They don't know where the jet went down?!?
Well, the last time this admin lost a plane was a Predator, over Iran ...
Maybe the F35 landed in China ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWqA0uyKtg4
Condensed quote for the non-video crowd -
General Graycliffe: A child with a stick of chewing gum has just rendered your hundred million dollars of hardware useless.
Probably landed on one of those Chinese rancher properties that are being bought up around our country....
Piloted by the not-so-great Santini.
No report of which Beaufort squadron.
Transponder malfunctioning, convenient that...
There is some shocking truth behind this.
It is already known the F-35 is very vulnerable to its massive electronics and computers being disabled by lightning. The Pentagon has ordered pilots of the aircraft avoid thunderstorms. Its composite structure is not as protected as typical metal aircraft against lightning.
The F-35 cannot even fly without its computers fully functioning.
Further, the F-35 is so stealthy, it is not surprising the abandoned aircraft, after the pilot ejected, was lost to our own military because they could not track it.
The “geniuses” in the Military Industrial Complex have created a VERY expensive fighter jet not safe to operate in bad weather and easily lost without a trace.
The F-35 is the most expensive U.S. military boondoggle of all time.
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“The program has drawn much scrutiny and criticism for its unprecedented size, complexity, ballooning costs, and much-delayed deliveries. The acquisition strategy of concurrent production of the aircraft while it was still in development and testing led to expensive design changes and retrofits.”
The more they overdesign the pipes, the easier it is to clog the toilet.
What if he was not the only pilot on board?
I wonder if we’re ever going to be told what the “MISHAP” was? Something stinks about this entire incident.
Finders keepers.
I wonder if this was in anyway related to the William Tell air combat exercises that were supposed to conclude on 9/15?
Curious... I am a few hundred miles north along the coast, east of Havelock/Cherry Point and was in my workshop when I felt/heard a single thud that shook the shop yesterday afternoon. We hear similar things every now and then since there is a bombing range nearby but this one felt a little different and I stepped out into the yard and looked around, went into the house to make sure all is good in there, etc.
Not saying that it made its way up here but wondering if some jets might have been scrambled and were double-timing it. Haven’t seen any mention of that.
Why didn’t the wingman see where the plane went down?