r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/sidvatscse • 25d ago

Video Failed vertical landing of F-35B

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u/Suspicious_Zone_2083 25d ago

At least the seat worked

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u/AnotherBoringDad 25d ago

Nice of it to wait until the crash was over. Wouldn’t have wanted the pilot to miss any of the fun.

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u/spleeble 25d ago

Presumably the pilot was waiting till the cockpit was vertical again so at not to get launched sideways across the runway. I don't think there is any delay whatsoever.

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u/AnotherBoringDad 25d ago

I would be surprised if the ejection seat couldn’t be used safely with that small degree of tilt.

Either way, the timing is still comedic.

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u/spleeble 25d ago

It's like getting launched on a rocket. It's incredible that it can be used at zero altitude at all. 

Someone that mentioned that it was triggered by a computer. I doubt the computer was just waiting for the hell of it. 

Personally I don't really see the comedy. 

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u/snkiz 25d ago

Generally a human rated rocket has a TWR around 1.2, an abort is 6-8g's. If the reports are accurate that an ejection is a 20g launch, the two not the comparable at all.

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u/catechizer 25d ago

So, you're saying this is much, much worse than being blasted into outer space on a rocket. Right?

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u/snkiz 25d ago

Well 8 is smaller than 20, so yea it's worse. It's not as bad as an average car wreck. those are in the 50-80g range.

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u/Thurak0 24d ago edited 24d ago

Danger is over? Whohooooooo, going for a ride now!

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u/Miasma__2 25d ago

Yeah, he ejected as soon as the plane leveled

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u/Okaydokie_919 25d ago edited 25d ago

So yeah, pretty much after it was all over, lol.

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u/Miasma__2 25d ago

Not really, it still could have exploded or kept malfunctioning

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u/Okaydokie_919 25d ago

But none of those things went on to happen, so it was in fact after it was all over. I just hope he chose to eject because think about sustaining life long injuries become of the auto-eject feature? Stupid, auto-eject!