UK F-35B Lost
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: In an ever changing place
Posts: 1,038
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Originally Posted by NutLoose
Good to see nothing has changed, I take it the white toe caps are to prevent someone nicking his / her / its flying boots...
Or to leave witness marks if they hit the airframe on the way out.
Gentleman Aviator
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]
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: surfing, watching for sharks
Posts: 3,935
Likes: 0
Received 4 Likes
on
3 Posts
Originally Posted by ORAC
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!
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Europe
Posts: 1,094
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
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
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: surfing, watching for sharks
Posts: 3,935
Likes: 0
Received 4 Likes
on
3 Posts
Originally Posted by CargoOne
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)
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Australia OZ
Age: 74
Posts: 2,371
Likes: 0
Received 11 Likes
on
11 Posts
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"...."
Originally Posted by H Peacock
So, any inkling yet as to the cause, or are we drawing a blank? 🤔
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.
Originally Posted by SATCOS WHIPPING BOY
Now that made me chuckle.
Red herrings aside as I cannot believe something so obvious would have been missed.
Red herrings aside as I cannot believe something so obvious would have been missed.
Technology may change but somehow Murphy still finds a workaround.
Originally Posted by wiggy
And yet as history has shown they can be as big as you want, painted any colour you want and yet they do get missed.
Technology may change but somehow Murphy still finds a workaround.
Technology may change but somehow Murphy still finds a workaround.
Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: n/a
Posts: 31
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
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.
Tomcat Deep! ? HistoricWings.com :: A Magazine for Aviators, Pilots and Adventurers
Tomcat Deep! ? HistoricWings.com :: A Magazine for Aviators, Pilots and Adventurers
Thread Starter
Originally Posted by Davef68
Do they even use intake blanks on the F-35? I've seen photos on QE with RBF tags, but none that show intake (or engine) blanking plates.
Originally Posted by SpazSinbad
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"...."
