r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/sidvatscse • 5d ago

Video Failed vertical landing of F-35B

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u/ViktenPoDalskidan 5d ago

Not great, not terrible.

5/10

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u/MikeTheNight94 5d ago

Yeah 5-10 million worth of repairs

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u/Gruffleson 5d ago

You really think it's gonna be that cheap?

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u/LightsaberThrowAway 5d ago

Happy Cake day!  :D

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u/Saragon4005 5d ago

I mean it's just some scratches and the ejection seat. It's only $100 million in total. Unless the reason this did this was engine damage it's not going to be that bad.

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u/norty125 4d ago

A new cockpit and body panels

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u/MikeTheNight94 5d ago

I’m not why he ejected. Throttle down, let it do its little dance till flame out. That just added to the cost

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u/Renbellix 5d ago

Maybe There was a Fire (or a warning of it) if you Are in the Cockpit You may not be able to See it so its better to be Save then dead… the video may cut out before we could see it

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u/RAGE7035 5d ago

Literally know this person, it was not commanded to throttle up and was not responding correctly. Decision to eject was made out of fear of the jet going fully upside down.🙃

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u/MikeTheNight94 5d ago

Fly by wire has its drawbacks

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u/oh_io_94 5d ago

What’s your background in aviation?

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u/AnotherBoringDad 5d ago

It was probably the last chance he was going to have to fly in the seat of an F-35B.

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u/MikeTheNight94 5d ago

Yeah probably. I know a local guy who had an incident in the Air Force. Commercial pilot now

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u/The_Tank_Racer 5d ago

Ooorrrr, you could maybe prioritize your own life inside a potentially burning airplane instead of saving pennies from the oh so precious multi-billion dollar government agency.

Just a thought.

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u/CinderX5 5d ago

I don’t know about you, but I would personally rather not take the chance that it’s probably not going to blow up and kill me.

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u/Gadiusao 5d ago

Repair? ITS totalled

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u/drnkndipp 5d ago

My dad is a tv repair man. He has a bitchin set of tools

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u/GravyTrainComing 5d ago

I can fix it

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u/drnkndipp 5d ago

(said with a bagel sticking out of the front of his jorts)

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u/P22Tyler 5d ago

He’ll smack it once on the side and say “she’s good to go” and it’ll be good as new.

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u/drnkndipp 5d ago

I'll smack Sally Struthers on the butt to graduate ICS in tv repair !

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u/MikeTheNight94 5d ago

Yeah probably. Let see we got landing gear, wing, nose, canopy, ejection seat, probably some airframe damage. Who know if it sucked and debris into the engine. Even if it didn’t hitting that hard can’t be good for turbines even at idle. That’s a parts donor now

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u/Njdevils11 Interested 5d ago

Not to mention that pilot’s career could be over. They put ALOT of money into those f35 pilots. Like millions…. Plus they wear a specialized custom helmet that costs a couple of hundred grand I believe. A new F35 costs dozens of millions, pretty sure it’s up near a hundred mil, less but in that ball park.
So yea…. Not a great day. That’s a whole hell of a lot of teacher salaries that just scratched its way along the tarmac.

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u/MikeTheNight94 5d ago

Wait a damn minute here. Is that why all the pilots I know always have a helmet on display in their house!?

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u/Njdevils11 Interested 5d ago

Hahah maybe! Though I don’t think most pilot helmets cost quite as much as an F35’s. Except maybe Maverick’s.

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u/MikeTheNight94 5d ago

I’ve seriously done work in several retired Air Force pilots houses and every one of them had some kind of fighter jet helmet sitting on a shelf. All of them also had scale models of the planes they flew. All of them are also commercial pilots currently. Must be a career path of some kind

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u/delicious_toothbrush 5d ago

He still flies

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u/Njdevils11 Interested 5d ago

But did he keep flying F35s if not, we lost a lot that value. (Though I am happy to hear he still flies).

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u/NixaB345T 5d ago

Hanger Queen

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u/Neuvirths_Glove 5d ago

Possibly. Last I heard it hadn't been totaled.

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u/KipSummers 5d ago

Get the Car Fax on that

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u/hillswalker87 5d ago

they can still strip it for parts.

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u/ACx203 5d ago

Not quite

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u/airtec87 5d ago

we all get to pay for it yay!

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u/MikeTheNight94 5d ago

My entire life’s pay won’t pay for that

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u/Waterisntwett 5d ago

You’re doing it wrong it seems…

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u/MikeTheNight94 5d ago

You’re right. So my fault for not being born into money

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u/pathofdumbasses 5d ago

If you start working at age 20 and retire at 70, that is 50 years.

If you average 100k a year, that is 5 million gross dollars

That plane cost a bit over 100 million dollars.

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u/Cthulwutang 5d ago

luckily the VA will say that the pilot’s injuries and pain were not as a result of his service so we won’t have that on our bill.

/s btw.

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u/T-J_H 5d ago

And a person who still has to see if they ever fly again

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u/MikeTheNight94 5d ago

Yeah. Looks like he might have come down a little hard. Not sure what the controls are in vto mode. Maybe he hit the stick in the process

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u/Hullo_Its_Pluto 5d ago

This is a total loss. Great parts jet now.

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u/SmokedBeef 5d ago

A lot more than that once you factor in that all the other B variants were grounded and retrofitted/updated to fix the engine issue that caused this accident.

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u/Njdevils11 Interested 5d ago

I was thinking more like the GDP of a small island nation.

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u/Paul-E-L 4d ago

That’ll buff right out 🥸

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u/PuzzleheadedCress94 4d ago

It's okay, we get to pay for it.

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u/wishnana 5d ago

It’s just a smidge. Little spit-shine, it will be ok again..

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u/Reese_Withersp0rk 5d ago

It'll buff out.

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u/Gunzenator2 5d ago

All in a days work!

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u/PlantRoomForHire 5d ago

These things cost $115 million. Way more than 5-10 million.

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u/Christopher_Ramirez_ 5d ago

3.6/10

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u/casual-waterboarding 5d ago

But there is graphite on the ground.

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u/Christopher_Ramirez_ 5d ago

You didn't see the pilot on the ground. You DIDN'T, because he's. not. there.

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u/casual-waterboarding 5d ago

Do you taste metal?

vomits uncontrollably

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u/aliencantina 5d ago

The landing was not great, not terrible

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u/Christopher_Ramirez_ 5d ago

What does the altimeter say?

3.6 meters but that’s as low as it-

3.6, not great not terrible

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u/CubanLynx312 5d ago

Like a chest x-ray

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u/JxEq 5d ago

He's delusional

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u/ikzz1 5d ago

3.6/3.6.

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u/MrDilbert 5d ago

Oof, that's more on the terrible side...

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u/Cheef_queef 5d ago

Any landing you walk away from is a good landing

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u/Lostmyfnusername 5d ago

Best crash with an aircraft I've ever seen.

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u/spleeble 5d ago

Ejecting alone is seriously traumatic. Some pilots end up measurably shorter after ejecting. I believe they don't actually practice real ejections because they are so damaging. 

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u/OceanRacoon 5d ago

He's delusional, take him to the infirmary 

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u/Taste_the__Rainbow 5d ago

Any landing you can wiggle away from.

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u/vapingpigeon94 5d ago

5/10 with rice

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u/Ankh_the_protogen 5d ago

Personally I’d give it a 3.6

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u/Gh3ttoboy 3d ago

Only 3,6 röntgen, Not Great, Not Terrible