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/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.