F-35 CRASH: PILOT EJECTS SAFELY

[fubar57]

F-35B jet crashes in Beaufort County, South Carolina - CNNPolitics
F-35 fighter jet suffers first crash

 

[Torch]

Well we know the ejection seat works

 

[jetcal1]

Well we know the ejection seat works

Actually......
It needed a redesign when women were allowed to fly combat as the seat was not designed to accommodate smaller physiques and weights.

 

[vikingBerserker]

Man, would that not just stink!

 

[Torch]

Actually......
It needed a redesign when women were allowed to fly combat as the seat was not designed to accommodate smaller physiques and weights.

My comment was meant to be sarcasm due to those known issues.....

 

[jetcal1]

My comment was meant to be sarcasm due to those known issues.....

My bad. There are just so many imponderables with a seat.

 

[Gnomey]

Glad the pilot was ok.

 

[Barrett]

The satirical Duffelbag website often posts such outlandish "news" that much of it seems credible. In this instance I think the headline was "Marines celebrate first F-35 crash in South Carolina." BTW: The marines are still slurping their own Kool-Aid, saying that an LPD/whatever with six F-35Bs will relieve the need for a CVN in the Persian Gulf AO. IF anybody wonders why F-35 remains in low-rate production it's because OT&E still has not been completed--a requirement for full-scale production. And oh: we're entering the 22nd year of the JSF program.