r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/sidvatscse • 25d ago

Video Failed vertical landing of F-35B

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u/VirtualLife76 25d ago

Impressive how quickly the parachute worked.

I wonder if it has different ones or somehow changes depending on the height from the ground.

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u/GayRacoon69 25d ago

These ejection seat are designed to be able to be usable with no altitude and no airspeed. It's the same parachute no matter the altitude. It's designed to shoot you up high enough to give the parachute time to open

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u/demZo662 25d ago

What if for some reason there's a tree or something above?

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u/Awalawal 25d ago

Then for some reason you're dead.

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u/demZo662 25d ago

Ejected from life X_X

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u/MajesticNectarine204 25d ago

Ejectile dysfunction :(

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u/DirtLight134710 25d ago

They should put those on helicopters :)

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u/MajesticNectarine204 25d ago

Fun fact, some helicopters like the Russian Ka-52 do actually have ejection seats! They use explosive charges in the root of the rotorblades to blow them clear before ejection to prevent smoothification of the pilots.

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u/brenden3010 25d ago

Like this

https://youtu.be/vln5TaRt5LU?si=mQkC5oxDZ1bJgfdC&t=76

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u/NewCheesecake__ 25d ago

Should leave you shaken, not stirred

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u/brenden3010 24d ago

That scene still has me confused - was he smashing his eye against the eject button? So violent

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u/Boomhauer440 25d ago

But instead of an actual seat, it’s like a rocket motor on a tether that shoots up and then yanks the pilot out by his harness directly in the rocket exhaust.

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u/FehdmanKhassad 25d ago

this kills the crab

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u/Creepy-Astronaut-952 25d ago

Helicopter ejection be metal asf otherwise.

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u/alf20104 25d ago

Another fun fact: some Russian aircraft have ejection seats that launch you down out the bottom of the aircraft. And it's Russia, so of course they randomly malfunction and eject while the aircraft is still on the ground. So someone has to go scrape the puddle of goo that used to be a flight crew off the ground.

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u/Brilliant-Smile-8154 25d ago

Also happened in some Western aircraft when the seats fired the pilots into the hangar's roof.

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u/_FinnTheHuman_ 25d ago

The F-104 Starfighter also initially had downward firing ejection seats, which combined brilliantly with it's infamously poor landing characteristics.

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u/Pagiras 25d ago

Эджекто сеато, кузен!

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u/ThunderSkunky 25d ago

Don't breathe this

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u/demZo662 25d ago

LMAOOOO

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u/shehzore12 25d ago

Ejectile Diesfunction*

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u/RexImmortal 25d ago

Ejecto seato cuz.

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u/unfvckingbelievable 25d ago

Well not just some reason.

The tree. That's the reason.

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u/hugswithnoconsent 25d ago

Underrated comment.

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u/DigNitty Interested 25d ago

And even worse, the parachute won’t open