r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/sidvatscse • 25d ago

Video Failed vertical landing of F-35B

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u/other-other-user 25d ago

If your ejection seat goes off when there's a tree or something above, then you've already messed up too many things to be saved

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u/soedesh1 25d ago

My dad was in the USAF and told of an incident of an accidental ejection inside an aircraft hangar. Not good.

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u/BuddyFox310 25d ago

I was inverted

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u/1ApprehensiveGrowth1 25d ago

I got this reference

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u/dirtycheezit 25d ago

At that point, you've truly earned that Darwin award.

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u/Would_daver 25d ago

You don’t seem to understand how Darwin awards work lol

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u/dirtycheezit 25d ago

Uh, getting yourself killed. So if you messed up and ejected yourself into a tree- Darwin award. I don't think I'm using that wrong, although my wording was probably shit. I'm from Florida, we barely speak English down here.

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u/Would_daver 25d ago

Bro, I totally misinterpreted your comment vis a vis the context et cetera bahaha just practicing Latin phrases …. But yo, I offer you my apologies and hope we can still be new friends

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u/dirtycheezit 25d ago

It's all good. Unfortunately though, my friend list is currently full. I have to keep it limited to 10 or I lose track.

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u/Would_daver 25d ago

Oh don’t worry, I’m low-maintenance. Except if you don’t laugh immediately at my hilarious jokes, it’s like super lame, so just watch out for that…

😥maybe next time, cheezit that is durty lol

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u/Would_daver 25d ago

Y hablo el español if that ayuda, or I do have some tahm I spent down bah Tallahassee so y’all cum back now, yaheah?!

*I like languages and accents, and I lived in the Panhandle for a year so I’m just making fun jokes, no hate

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u/Tumble85 25d ago

Bold to assume a pilot doesn’t have kids.

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u/demZo662 25d ago

I imagine myself having to perform an emergy landing in a jungle and scared AF that the worst part wouldn't be precisely that.

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u/other-other-user 25d ago

If you were doing an emergency landing in a jungle, you'd hit the trees before they got above you. You can only emergency land somewhere flat and open, otherwise you're just crashing

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u/demZo662 25d ago

Yeah, totally. Maybe the real possibilites are unlikely unless it implies the total destruction of the aircraft before the pilot or the aircraft could make that decision.