Sure the f-35 program may cost $1.4 trillion but it produced the funniest plane video ever so who’s to say it’s bad
@kate this is like the ejection scene from Sideshow Bob’s Last Gleaming
@kate oh MAN i was so worried that plane was gonna skid out onto the highway
what the fuck, how do you make a plane this bad
@kate good job the ejector seat works
@chrisgerhard @kate Except the pilot was trying to pair their phone with the Bluetooth, not eject.
@chrisgerhard @kate If I'm ejected from a plane like that I'd prefer not to end up right next to said plane...
@CattyEllieLou @kate given the problems with the ejector seat on that plane they are lucky just to be out, unless it broke their neck
@kate OK, that was *extremely* Kerbal! Did Jebediah Kerman bail out at the last moment?
@kate The Wassailer Maneuver.
@kate that's what a billion dollars going away looks like
@kate
What genius programmed the plane to automatically eject the pilot at zero feet above the ground?
Unless the pilot did it on purpose? If so, I’d say that person has had some baaaad experiences on that thing. Like, better to be flung 100 feet in the air and pretty much free fall instead of staying in the cockpit
@KatMA @kate So ejection seats in the F-35 are Martin baker Mk16-US16E. They are zero/zero which means it will work at zero altitude and zero airspeed. The pilot triggered the ejection in this case. It looks like gear collapse and when it hit nose down the front lift fan was blocked which resulted in the plane spinning around. The pilot waited will he was in a good position to eject. Here is a B model in STOVL mode and you can see the fan, down turned engine and the wing propulsion doors
@kate you bullies leave my large metal son alone
@kate "F-35's New $412 Billion Cost Estimate Is a Modest Increase By Its Standards." (from an article dated September, 2022)
Ah, taxpayer dollars hard at work bringing lulz to 'Murican citizens!
@kate i smile, slowly descending from the sky, having proven the zero/zero capability of my joint strike fighter's ejector seat. my expression turns to dawning horror as the gentle breeze blows me back toward my aircraft, and the open upper intake of the still-running engine.
@kate
THIS close to be sucked into the engine...
@kate all aboard the failplane. Next stop: failsville.
This is your captain speaking, we are currently failing at an altitude of 30 feet, with a groundspeed of fail miles per hour. Please note the eject button is on the right hand side of your seat. Thank you for failing with us, and we hope you have a pleasant fail.
@kate LOL
Video caption for the above: a fancy plane attempting a fancy stationary landing, looking like it’s all going to plan according to me, someone who knows nothing about military stuff, but then bounces forward and hits the ground with its nose and starts slowly spinning and smoking and the pilot ejects themself for a ridiculous 15-m descent in parachute and it’s all so laughable. Sound : plane noises, person videoing going “oh it just crashed, oh shit, oh shit”.
@kate and I thought that the planes in GTA 3 were not realistic…
@kate yeah i guess i'll take that over public services of any kind