All your F35 are belong to us.Hagen95 said:
All your F35 belong to us.
Jeez, know your meme.
All your F35 are belong to us.Hagen95 said:
All your F35 belong to us.
This tells me China (or some other enemy) has penetrated our military network and may be able to either impact or control (to some extent) our aircraft.45-70Ag said:BREAKING: U.S. officials have ordered a 2-day stand down for all military aviation inside as well as outside the United States after an F-35 jet went missing in South Carolina.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 18, 2023
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According to ABC News, "no units are allowed to fly" unless there is… pic.twitter.com/SuIv7x0N1K
Blamed the F84Robert L. Peters said:Biz Ag said:
Missing F-35?
Oh, thank goodness.
For a minute there I thought it was an F-18.
Even worse it could have been f16…then what would we have done?!?
CSTXAg92 said:This tells me China (or some other enemy) has penetrated our military network and may be able to either impact or control (to some extent) our aircraft.45-70Ag said:BREAKING: U.S. officials have ordered a 2-day stand down for all military aviation inside as well as outside the United States after an F-35 jet went missing in South Carolina.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 18, 2023
This keeps getting more bizarre.
According to ABC News, "no units are allowed to fly" unless there is… pic.twitter.com/SuIv7x0N1K
CSTXAg92 said:This tells me China (or some other enemy) has penetrated our military network and may be able to either impact or control (to some extent) our aircraft.45-70Ag said:BREAKING: U.S. officials have ordered a 2-day stand down for all military aviation inside as well as outside the United States after an F-35 jet went missing in South Carolina.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 18, 2023
This keeps getting more bizarre.
According to ABC News, "no units are allowed to fly" unless there is… pic.twitter.com/SuIv7x0N1K
Could this have to do with the hypoxia issues some pilots have experienced?whatthehey78 said:
My question(s):
1. What has the pilot said about the incident?
2. Why did he think it necessary he eject?
3a. Was the aircraft flying erratically or unstable? 3b. If yes...how so?
4. What has his wingman said about the incident?
5. Not a single "local" has offered a statement or speculation based on his/her visual where the plane is?
6.
I could go on...but you get the idea.
The pilot's pronouns were big/badaboom.Demosthenes81 said:CSTXAg92 said:This tells me China (or some other enemy) has penetrated our military network and may be able to either impact or control (to some extent) our aircraft.45-70Ag said:BREAKING: U.S. officials have ordered a 2-day stand down for all military aviation inside as well as outside the United States after an F-35 jet went missing in South Carolina.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 18, 2023
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But most importantly, were everyone's pronouns respected?
If this were the case, why would they let everyone know they can do it? Wouldn't it be more prudent to wait until there were hostilities between the US and China and crash all of the planes around the world in a Pearl Harbor type attack?Quote:
This tells me China (or some other enemy) has penetrated our military network and may be able to either impact or control (to some extent) our aircraft.
It's probably simpler than you think......read my post above.Zergling Rush said:If this were the case, why would they let everyone know they can do it? Wouldn't it be more prudent to wait until there were hostilities between the US and China and crash all of the planes around the world in a Pearl Harbor type attack?Quote:
This tells me China (or some other enemy) has penetrated our military network and may be able to either impact or control (to some extent) our aircraft.
I am guessing this is just another glitch in a long line of development issues. Probably a software error......
CSTXAg92 said:
This tells me China (or some other enemy) has penetrated our military network and may be able to either impact or control (to some extent) our aircraft.
Has nothing to do with checking his fuel gauge before t/o. Probably didn't monitor it properly. Good chance, based on known results...he didn't have the altitude or airspeed to glide for a safe landing.Zergling Rush said:
So the pilot didn't check his fuel gauges before he took off and he couldn't find a place to land it in time once he noticed?
How often does that happen?
This tells me that there was a gross error in pilot judgment and every Marine in the air wing is going to get some remediation because of one Marine's $80MM error. Two days of safety discussions won't do dick about a foreign intelligence compromise of an aircraft and the Commandant knows it.CSTXAg92 said:This tells me China (or some other enemy) has penetrated our military network and may be able to either impact or control (to some extent) our aircraft.45-70Ag said:BREAKING: U.S. officials have ordered a 2-day stand down for all military aviation inside as well as outside the United States after an F-35 jet went missing in South Carolina.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 18, 2023
This keeps getting more bizarre.
According to ABC News, "no units are allowed to fly" unless there is… pic.twitter.com/SuIv7x0N1K
Hours of boredom, few seconds of terror. You'd think the terror would be a firefight, not miscalculating your fuel.Viper16 said:Has nothing to do with checking his fuel gauge before t/o. Probably didn't monitor it properly. Good chance, based on known results...he didn't have the altitude or airspeed to glide for a safe landing.Zergling Rush said:
So the pilot didn't check his fuel gauges before he took off and he couldn't find a place to land it in time once he noticed?
How often does that happen?
Doesn't happen a lot......although lots of guys land in min fuel situations by not monitoring the fuel properly.
This is my unofficial speculation based on my 20 fighter experience.
Yep. They come in and do touch and gos with those and F/A-18s all the time over here and that's probably what those two were up to.CanyonAg77 said:All the discussion was about it being near Joint Base Charleston.GAC06 said:
That F-35 is out of MCAS Beaufort
Well, it's easier to miss "bingo" (fuel required to end the mission and return to base safely) than you think. I don't know the full afterburner fuel rates of consumption of the F-35, but I'm guessing it's well north of 65-70,000 lbs per hour......internal fuel capacity is around 18,000lbs. Do the math.techno-ag said:Hours of boredom, few seconds of terror. You'd think the terror would be a firefight, not miscalculating your fuel.Viper16 said:Has nothing to do with checking his fuel gauge before t/o. Probably didn't monitor it properly. Good chance, based on known results...he didn't have the altitude or airspeed to glide for a safe landing.Zergling Rush said:
So the pilot didn't check his fuel gauges before he took off and he couldn't find a place to land it in time once he noticed?
How often does that happen?
Doesn't happen a lot......although lots of guys land in min fuel situations by not monitoring the fuel properly.
This is my unofficial speculation based on my 20 fighter experience.
If he's in a B, isn't there the possibility of transition to VTOL and just land? I'm assuming in this scenario he heard the Bingo warning.Viper16 said:Has nothing to do with checking his fuel gauge before t/o. Probably didn't monitor it properly. Good chance, based on known results...he didn't have the altitude or airspeed to glide for a safe landing.Zergling Rush said:
So the pilot didn't check his fuel gauges before he took off and he couldn't find a place to land it in time once he noticed?
How often does that happen?
Doesn't happen a lot......although lots of guys land in min fuel situations by not monitoring the fuel properly.
This is my unofficial speculation based on my 20 years of fighter experience.
Anything is possible.Ag with kids said:If he's in a B, isn't there the possibility of transition to VTOL and just land? I'm assuming in this scenario he heard the Bingo warning.Viper16 said:Has nothing to do with checking his fuel gauge before t/o. Probably didn't monitor it properly. Good chance, based on known results...he didn't have the altitude or airspeed to glide for a safe landing.Zergling Rush said:
So the pilot didn't check his fuel gauges before he took off and he couldn't find a place to land it in time once he noticed?
How often does that happen?
Doesn't happen a lot......although lots of guys land in min fuel situations by not monitoring the fuel properly.
This is my unofficial speculation based on my 20 years of fighter experience.
Yeah...if you're way past bingo fuel, I doubt transitioning to a state that likely costs MORE fuel than just normal flight would be feasible...Viper16 said:Anything is possible.Ag with kids said:If he's in a B, isn't there the possibility of transition to VTOL and just land? I'm assuming in this scenario he heard the Bingo warning.Viper16 said:Has nothing to do with checking his fuel gauge before t/o. Probably didn't monitor it properly. Good chance, based on known results...he didn't have the altitude or airspeed to glide for a safe landing.Zergling Rush said:
So the pilot didn't check his fuel gauges before he took off and he couldn't find a place to land it in time once he noticed?
How often does that happen?
Doesn't happen a lot......although lots of guys land in min fuel situations by not monitoring the fuel properly.
This is my unofficial speculation based on my 20 years of fighter experience.
But if he didn't realize his fuel state (maybe bi**ching Betty didn't work) until too late and ran out of fuel, VTOL no workie.
Lots of what if's possible in this scenario.
CSTXAg92 said:This tells me China (or some other enemy) has penetrated our military network and may be able to either impact or control (to some extent) our aircraft.45-70Ag said:BREAKING: U.S. officials have ordered a 2-day stand down for all military aviation inside as well as outside the United States after an F-35 jet went missing in South Carolina.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 18, 2023
This keeps getting more bizarre.
According to ABC News, "no units are allowed to fly" unless there is… pic.twitter.com/SuIv7x0N1K
Can"t be a guy, our resident experts have already told us its a woman. Or a Chinese woman. Or a diversty hire.GAC06 said:
If they swapped paint it would be public knowledge. Hell there'd probably be pictures out by now. People talk, it's the reason I know who the guy who punched is.
Not everything is a conspiracy.
Autonomous mode. Might be autopilot, might be autoland.Ducks4brkfast said:
Right? Like those same experts telling us no way the plane was in auto pilot upon ejection.
Depends. If they're a protected class, probably not.Pluralizes Everythings said:
Right now we only know 1 thing...somebody's in trouble.
it was labelled in gallons, but metered for liters.Jock 07 said:
$100 Million airplane and can't even get a low fuel light.
I assume you're alluding to the Gimli Glider incident that happened in Canada back in 1983?C@LAg said:it was labelled in gallons, but metered for liters.Jock 07 said:
$100 Million airplane and can't even get a low fuel light.