air sound, et al,
there is no concept of V1 in a single engined aircraft. With engine failure, the aircraft is ‘no go’
, whereas the pilot, in this instance, is ‘go’.
As I recall there was discussion, even a requirement for ‘auto eject’ for seaborne STOL aircraft. The late JF presented this in review and history of vertical flight, and indicated that Russian aircraft had the capability, and had used it.
Adopting this for takeoff would be an interesting challenge.
After an interesting ‘pax’ flight off the experimental ramp at Bedford, JF related to an incident where an overseas evaluation pilot forgot to rotate the nozzles at ramp exit - not quite an engine failure, but … .
Is prevention of this aspect automated in the F-35 ?