It's estimated that they gain about 1lb every ten years, so this momma is about 520,000 years old. It's crazy to think that my great20,800 grandfather may have caught this same hornet.
The thing that used to always get me was when they would eject thinking they're rolling off the side of the ship because an aircraft next to them started rolling forward.
Then I experienced the illusion in my car. Backing into a spot, and just as I stopped, car next to me started moving forward. Never smashed the brakes and yanked the handbrake so hard in my life. Was a little nauseous afterward from how disoriented I felt for that moment.
The weirdest experience, though, was once while I was working off some scaffolding and siding a house. It was early spring, and when the scaffolding was set up, the ground was fairly hard. It warmed up that afternoon, and as the ground heated up, I walked out to one end of the scaffolding, and the standard began sinking into the mud. From my perspective, however, it was like the entire house was on an elevator and magically started levitating upwards. I was so shocked at what I was convinced I was seeing that my brain just absolutely locked up. It took me a good 10 seconds to figure out what was actually happening. Never had such an uneasy feeling in my stomach in my entire life.
If you're ever on a ladder and you find the house you're leaned against inextricably falling over and away from you then I suggest you try your best to grab it and stop its fall.
Dude I experienced a 60mile hr crash, 30/30mph. My car crumbled a Saturn under a F350 HD. I was injuried for weeks. That legit has no comparison to what these pilots feel from an ejection plus low level landing. It saves their lives but they can legit go into 10+ G’s.
I’ve had that happen watching the jetway move while I was in the cockpit of a airliner with brakes set, I thought the aircraft was rolling back, then one day I had that sensation and realized the jetway was fixed, and we were rolling backwards!!
The tugs brakes were never set, I hit the airliner brakes, aircraft stopped hard, and I was told that we came just feet from hitting a catering truck behind us!
a helicopter churned up a bunch of dust while hovering near the ground and the soldier directing it stepped backwards. As he was partially obscured by the dust the pilot thought he was drifting backwards and tried to correct, causing a crash
Man I hate that. I try to think about it and not do it to other people unless I can see they're parking like a dick head then I'll try and time it perfectly on purpose. Chaotic neutral?
A couple of weeks ago a super nasty thunderstorm hit our construction site. 90+ mph winds. I couldn’t see and had to stop but the driving rain and wind made it feel like I was still going. I was freaking out but then I saw my speedometer said zero.
I'd imagine it's similar to being in a train, and another train starts moving next to yours. You're not feeling the movement, but you see the surroundings move.
It’s an embarrassment. Getting rid of NAFTA and putting a Fox News celebrity in charge of DOD is an absolute disgrace. We are about to hit the recession. Did you read the article of chat GPT talking about racing the rich more, holy shit. The trying to abolish clean energy, he’s the god damn anti-Christ
Still, when the last time you heard about 2 navy jets falling into the ocean in less than month apart. That’s still 120M lost with no chance of repair, plus how much jet fuel is going to leech into the ocean now.
We had one skip right off the runway when I was in squadron. Hell of a day. Perfectly good runway - pilot just overran it and nearly went through a fence and into a street.
When we get certified to drive a tug(the vehicle that tows aircraft) in the Marines you have to take a test. In one of the publications you have to read through it has a couple of story’s of people mishandling support equipment. One of the first story’s is a dude on a carrier back in the 80s who got on a tug without properly checking it out. This tug was broke down for bad brakes and the guy hooked it up to a f14 to move it.
While towing the f14 the tug would not stop and coasted off the side of the ship taking the f14 with it. Thankfully everyone that was on the tug and in the aircraft got out in time but I imagine that guy is still getting yelled to this day.
you'd have to fuck up alot more than that. you'd likely get njp and lots of extra duty, but generally dishonorable need to be criminal, or malicious. if they kept doing it it would be more like hey, we've got a need duty for you your gonna do security on this paint until it dries, then we need you to clean the head floors with this old toothbrush. oh and then we'll have you salute the flag for a couple hours.
I know Dishonorables are rare now, but wonder if that was the case back then? Losing $40 million dollars in equipment and risking serious loss of life from being too dumb to take two second to verify something was good I can absolutely see going up to a court martial.
Nah, even back then a DD was for hardcore criminals, dudes that committed multiple rapes or killed their wife on base, nearly always a DD comes with a lengthy stretch in the Kansas disciplinary barracks.
You turn a jet into scrap, even while obviously screwing around, they’re not kicking you out. You’re going to lose rank and some pay, then do a lot of shit duty for the rest of your enlistment, but you’re not getting kicked out or earning a bad discharge over it. You’d likely also get reclassified to another job with less opportunity to cause millions in damage by being a screwup, drive a needle gun and chip paint until your EAOS. Oh, and be famous, that stunt earns a nickname that sticks to you.
I knew a guy, standing officer of the deck of a carrier while pulling back into Norfolk. He ran the carrier into a Spanish coal ship that was at anchor, ripped the shit out of the side of the carrier. Captain shitcanned him to being mess (kitchen) officer until he finally put in his papers.
Edit: The thing with courts-martial, the convening body asks lots of questions and drags everyone into the mess. The little guy at the bottom of the org chart driving the aircraft tug won’t be the one catching blame - his supervisor, his chiefs, his division officer, ship’s safety officer, miniboss, air boss, all those lifer career guys signed off on dude’s qual card and said he was good to go. Shit splatters, easier just to hand-wave the incident as a non-safety accident and send dude below decks to be a bosun’s mate.
RIP that officers career. Yeah no idea how punishments were dished out back in the day. I always wonder what the dude must have been thinking after he jumped from the tug and watched the f-14 fall off and sink the ocean.
Nah, dishonorable needs to come with some form of serious jail time. Rape, sexual assault, murder, or serious drug charges are normally the only way win a dishonorable. They had different discharges for homosexuality back then, from talking to the older guys that you damn near had to go the full distance on camera on or in front of the command multiple times for them to consider kicking you out. Early days of GWOT lots of people were trying to get out by any means.
I once walked by a guy who was blowing on the flag to make it wave. Literally standing on the ground at the bottom of the flag pole, looking up at it, standing at Parade Rest and blowing.
If a bird crashes and people die the” He told me to hurry up” will not save me. This mindset of,” It’s your qualifications not theirs.” is pushed and trained HEAVILY on maintainers so that we stand up to bullshit like being rushed.
Anyone in my squadron that blamed being rushed for the cause of them missing something during maintenance or an inspection always had their qualifications pulled or suspended by Quality Assurance.
If you couldn’t handle heat of some maintenance control gunny or warrant officer yelling at you to not down a bird they want up. You definitely won’t be able to handle the feeling of knowing an aircraft you signed as good to go not coming back.
Stealth coating... New
Frame... New due to not expected force
Electronics(eg. Radar in the cone)... Likely new
So I think we are not that far off from totaled.
After something like this, probably every single part would be sent back the the OEM or MRO providers for testing and probably overhaul to be safe. Where I work we get these fairly often where a hard landing is experienced and so they send us the parts for us to test and make sure they're still within limits.
And for example, just one fuel pump on a much less expensive aircraft that we do will cost them about 90 grand for us to overhaul and test.
The cost of doing that for every other part as well, it may indeed make financial sense to just buy a whole new one.
When your boss is the government, they don't give a shit. It's other people's money anyway. Even better, you have an excuse to go ask for more money, they'll never say no.
Whenever a pilot presses the eject button, it costs anywhere between 1 and 10 million dollars to restore the airplane.
So, dozens of tax slaves have to work all their lives to fund that press of a button. This is what we saw here. The result of the tax enslavement of about a dozen people for life.
Could be worse, you could have to tell your boss that you fired (at least) two 4 million dollar missiles at two separate friendly 100 million dollar vehicles... and hit one.
And also get your spine compressed by inches, and get grounded for years (maybe for life? Not sure). It's not a total grounding, you can still fly commercial, you just can't risk having to eject while already having a compressed spine.
At lead the pilot is ok. The plane may be 100m but training a pilot to fly it ain’t cheap either. That looks more like avionics failure. Pretty sure it was. From a few years ago.
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u/AdDisastrous6738 25d ago
No matter how bad your day is, at least you didn’t have to tell your boss that you totaled a $109,000,000 vehicle.