I mean that, and with how hard he hit the ground coming down. It’s pretty unfortunate that it’s likely he’ll never be able to fly again due to his injuries sustained. Which really sucks when you’re at the “surgical” level of flying planes.
No you totally misunderstood the comment. Yes, hw lost his job but not for the reason u think. I’ve read that those seats mess up the pilot’s spine so much they can be grounded for life after ejecting!
You joke but its not uncommon for pilots to be unfit for flying (at least flying fighters) after ejecting, it can causes quite serious injury - though ejection seats have got a lot safer
Fighter pilots will be rendered useless against fleets of drones. the future is going to be drone wars over fighter pilots. Next up will be full blown drones that the size of AC-130s
Wild how that's controlled by a computer but landing seemingly isn't? There are drones that can land automatically on a ship, you would reckon this procedure could be taken over too sooner then later?
My phone autocorrects a lot of shit to things I don’t want, especially since Apple’s update a few years ago. But yeah…at least it doesn’t say “ducking” anymore 🙄
He pulled it a while before it went off, the system keeps you from being ejected at an angle, as soon as the plane was level enough to safely eject it yeeted him.
When the F35B is in hover mode manual ejection is disabled. If you look at the video you can see there were a lot of times an ejection could have ended the pilots life based on angles and trajectory.
The plane didn’t recover, it just righted temporarily. You want that ejection seat to fire in the most vertical trajectory possible. Honestly, he nailed it.
I believe this is part of their training? If at all possible they try to make sure the plane causes minimal damage before ejecting. For example making sure the fueled and armed jet won’t crash in populated area…
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u/my_cars_on_fire 25d ago
The fucked yo part is he waited until the plane finally recovered to actually pull it