Posted on 09/21/2023 12:40:27 PM PDT by Red Badger
It may be a bug or it may not. The auto-eject is presumably supposed to happen while the plane is still in an envelope which permits safe ejection, not at the very last instant before the flaming fireball. The safety feature in the software may have ejected the pilot absolutely correctly according to the parameters it was programmed with. That the plane continued "flying" for some time is a testament to the robustness of its fly-by-wire system.
My thinking exactly. If that push comes...I’m buying a Barrett.
Possible stupidest thing I’ve read in a long time.
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If you mean C210N post, TRU DAT !
The real reason the pilot ejected? There was a spider in the cockpit.
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This is why I don't read GP.
Possible stupidest thing I’ve read in a long time.
Try the thread currently running on Jeb. At least that post had imagination.
My wife and I made the guess that the pilot was tooling along in an F-35 being a fighter pilot and suddenly he wasn’t in an F-35 being a fighter pilot while going W.T.F. just HAPPENED?!?!?
The F-35’s hardware and software are riddled with Chinese chips and codes. The Chinese communists were either sending a message to their Chinese appointed President Biden, or it was a test to see if they could cripple or eliminate US airpower.
Of course, we have no idea what we are talking about but we have the internet so we thought we should share.
In 1970 an F-106 Delta Dart on a training mission went into an unrecoverable flat spin forcing the pilot to eject.
After ejection, the jet recovered and flew on for several miles before landing itself in the middle of a cornfield.
The jet received so little damage that it was repaired and returned to service, earning the moniker, "Cornfield Bomber."
It was retired in 1986 and was presented to the National Museum of the United States Air Force where it sits on display to this day.
See: The Day an F-106 Supersonic Fighter Landed Itself in the Middle of a Field
And the likelihood of disappearance is the square of the importance of the meeting you are late for.
Pilot not IFR rated?
Ya think? A story about "insurgents" scoring multiple hits on an F-35, traveling several hundred miles an hour, at an altitude of 2,500 feet, using something firing.50 BMG?
Did the "insurgents" have a couple of batteries of M45 Quadmounts?
Okay. A little weirdness. We live in the low country of SC about 1 1/2 hours from Charleston, twenty minutes from the Beaufort marine base. On Sunday morning I was on my patio, about 9 am, my husband was in the shower. I was looking at the sky just kind of chilling and I saw what appeared, at first, to be a very large, slow moving, very white plane, no contrail, no engine noise and relatively low. As I tried to follow it I realized it was too rounded for an airplane, I called my husband and said he had to look, I think it is a balloon. I grabbed my binoculars and by the time I was able to focus on it, it had gone behind the trees. I thought of it most of the day and still couldn’t think of it as an airplane. It was moving approximately west to east.
IMHO the pilot said what he was TOLD to say!
I think I would want to control any decision to eject.
F-35Bs are not nuclear certified and have no ability to carry and release nuclear weapons. The US Marine Corps has no nuclear capability.
A supposed DEW would be too large to carry by a F-35. I don't think technology has yet to miniaturize a DEW to the size a fighter could carry. Maybe soon but not now.
It happened to a Vietnam war pilot I heard and questioned about how he bailed out at a low altitude ( 2 weeks ago at an Officers luncheon in Florida).
Plane was inverted and damaged pinned him inside the cockpit. Unable to reach main punch out lever but he was eventually able to reach the backup control under his seat.
Said it took him about 7 seconds to hit the ground, luckily vertical, but got stuck in the mud and captured. Spent about 267 days in captivity before being released in 1973.
His slide program on the Hanoi Hilton complex was detailed and amazing, as well as his stories about NVA torture sessions and methods.
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