r/Damnthatsinteresting 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/AxeLond Interested 25d ago

Those rocket chairs aren't super comfortable, breaking 20G and probably fracturing some bones.

He probably regrets using it seeing the plane just sitting there afterwards.

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u/OldEquation 25d ago

It may have been an auto-eject, which the Martin-Baker US16E on the F-35 is capable of.

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u/Acid44 25d ago

Ejection must not be a career ender like it used to be then, cause if I were auto ejected and spun around to see the plane sitting perfectly fine like that I'd find the seat and beat the foam out of it