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Good to see nothing has changed, I take it the white toe caps are to prevent someone nicking his / her / its flying boots...
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Good to see nothing has changed, I take it the white toe caps are to prevent someone nicking his / her / its flying boots... [img]images/smilies/evil.gif[/img]
If the jet made a rolling take off - are we talking intake or exhaust blank?
Intake - highly visible to multiple people on deck before wheels started turning.
Exhaust - shirley not possible because jet wouldn't go anywhere - highly degraded thrust.
And the lift fan doesn't need one - it's got doors.
Struggling to see how the egoat rumour can possibly be correct.
But they're now saying the ejectee landed on the flight deck!
Intake - highly visible to multiple people on deck before wheels started turning.
Exhaust - shirley not possible because jet wouldn't go anywhere - highly degraded thrust.
And the lift fan doesn't need one - it's got doors.
Struggling to see how the egoat rumour can possibly be correct.
But they're now saying the ejectee landed on the flight deck!
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F35 is a mistake keep repeated. Same like German Kriegsmarine Bismarck and Tirpitz. State of art at huge cost and no real use in war. Just keep producing an upgraded F16, much more efficient
Well, the F16 does have a tail hook.
(that’s satire before someone decides to prepare a lecture on the emergency nature of the F16 hook)
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ONE MILE DEEP - good luck with that: ‘Asked the Americans' UK calls for US help to recover RAF F35 jet in race against Russia (msn.com)
"The British military has received support from their American counterparts in the search to recover a F35B Lightning II, the Times reports. Navy sources told the broadsheet: "A number of nations have the capability to recover an aircraft from that depth........Reports suggest the jet is more than a mile below the surface. The process itself is supposedly "not rocket science"...."
"The British military has received support from their American counterparts in the search to recover a F35B Lightning II, the Times reports. Navy sources told the broadsheet: "A number of nations have the capability to recover an aircraft from that depth........Reports suggest the jet is more than a mile below the surface. The process itself is supposedly "not rocket science"...."
Now that made me chuckle.
Red herrings aside as I cannot believe something so obvious would have been missed., but how many other little RBF tags could have a catastrophic effect. A hunch would suggest the majority, and it wouldn't be the first time one has been left on.
Red herrings aside as I cannot believe something so obvious would have been missed., but how many other little RBF tags could have a catastrophic effect. A hunch would suggest the majority, and it wouldn't be the first time one has been left on.
Technology may change but somehow Murphy still finds a workaround.
Quick detour. A fascinating read on the loss and recovery of an F-14A which rolled off JFK into the North Sea. Crew ejected and landed back on the flight deck, in full view of a Soviet cruiser.
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ONE MILE DEEP - good luck with that: ‘Asked the Americans' UK calls for US help to recover RAF F35 jet in race against Russia (msn.com)
"The British military has received support from their American counterparts in the search to recover a F35B Lightning II, the Times reports. Navy sources told the broadsheet: "A number of nations have the capability to recover an aircraft from that depth........Reports suggest the jet is more than a mile below the surface. The process itself is supposedly "not rocket science"...."
"The British military has received support from their American counterparts in the search to recover a F35B Lightning II, the Times reports. Navy sources told the broadsheet: "A number of nations have the capability to recover an aircraft from that depth........Reports suggest the jet is more than a mile below the surface. The process itself is supposedly "not rocket science"...."