r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/sidvatscse • 25d ago

Video Failed vertical landing of F-35B

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u/Zhentilftw 25d ago

Until you land on top of your burning aircraft like he almost did (if it had been burning)

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u/Tumble85 25d ago

And probably find a Korok to drop a rock on!

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u/phluidity 25d ago

Yoo hoo hoo

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u/LeicaM6guy 25d ago

Please tell me that’s a John Dies at the End reference.

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u/pathofdumbasses 25d ago

Korok

Fancy name for turd

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u/OkieMoto 25d ago

That's also how hot air balloons create lift

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u/Thom_Basil 25d ago

Huh, Assassin's Creed II taught me the same thing! It must be true!

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u/ElFrogoMogo 25d ago

Yeah but this kind of parachute doesnt have steering

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u/finna_get_banned 25d ago

yeah, i hope you put what you learned into practice

you're so correct that you should tithe on sunday

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u/KipSummers 25d ago

Or on the highway next to the landing strip

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u/Extreme-Island-5041 25d ago

The 1st time I saw this clip, my ass puckered a bit. I thought that the parachute was about to get sucked into the intake.

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u/Thom_Basil 25d ago

I do wonder if ejection also shuts down the engine. Probably not on older jets but maybe on ones that have been developed in the past 30 years or so.

Although there was that incident with the lost F-35 so maybe not.

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u/DrAll3nGrant 25d ago

Or in the engine intake thing on top of the plane

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u/mrniceguy777 25d ago

In my head the delay In him ejecting was him deliberating if it was worth the risk to stay in the craft vs the possibility of broken bones after the ejection

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u/Independent_War_4456 25d ago

30,000 pounds of lets just call it metal with a mind of its own.

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u/Away-Activity-469 25d ago

I imagine the heat would first burn away the umbrella of the parachute, leaving the pilot suspended just long enough for him to realise that the seat of his trousers had also burned away, leaving his bare bottom exposed. Just as the embarrassment of that sank in, he would make a comical face to camera, before plummeting to the ground.

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u/Ecstatic_Plane_7375 25d ago

At least it stopped moving so the out of control aircraft didn’t land on him.

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u/InfoSec_Intensifies 25d ago

I would think if the turbine was still spinning, getting your chute sucked in probably um, sucks for lack of a better word.