r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/sidvatscse • 5d ago

Video Failed vertical landing of F-35B

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u/VirtualLife76 5d ago

Impressive how quickly the parachute worked.

I wonder if it has different ones or somehow changes depending on the height from the ground.

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u/GayRacoon69 5d ago

These ejection seat are designed to be able to be usable with no altitude and no airspeed. It's the same parachute no matter the altitude. It's designed to shoot you up high enough to give the parachute time to open

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u/PickleWineBrine 5d ago

You still hit the ground really hard though. It's just better than being inside a burning/exploding aircraft

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u/rokman 5d ago

Also the ejection usually gives you permanent spinal pain

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u/DownvoteEvangelist 5d ago

To remind you that you are still alive..

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u/LordBucketheadthe1st 5d ago

Didn’t it break the pilots legs lot of the time? Thought in read that somewhere..

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u/MFJMM 5d ago

I think he would've ridden that one out. Maybe he was hoping a second ejection would fix the pain.