F-35 Stealth Fighter Jet is missing

[AJ]

I wasn't alive at the time, but I read that Ford, GM and Chrysler, got together with other .gov contractors and participated in the Space Program to get man to the moon. They did all that in less than a decade while developing tech without the use of anything close to the tech we have today. They seemed to be on time and on budget even with major changes after Apollo 1.



As I said earlier, I'm just a regular guy asking dumb questions.

I was alive during the "Space Race" and lived about 45 miles south of the Cape. It was not uncommon to see the night sky light up during those times. Why you ask? Well, a rocket would go off course and they (NASA) would blow it up. Or it failed on it's own. How many millions were just vaporized then? None of the manufacturers lost any money.......they all made money or did not play the game.

Still walk out the front door and watch the rockets go up!

 

[AJ]

But have any of those articles been written by anybody who knows the first thing about how military aircraft fly in formation during peacetime?

Most of the writers don't know anything more than they have been told Some can't even get that right. I laugh almost every time I see stuff like this on the news. They get the services wrong at times, get the technical wording and facts wrong and just in general bumble through it. Will add or delete things as they see fit. Think you get the full and true story? Still believe in Santa Claus?

 

[Bekeart]

Pilot's 911 Call gets Slow Response

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — A military pilot whose advanced fighter jet went temporarily missing over the weekend is heard repeatedly requesting an ambulance in a perplexing 911 call from the South Carolina home where he had parachuted to safety, according to an audio recording released Thursday to The Associated Press.


'Not sure where the airplane is,' pilot told 911 dispatcher after F-35 ejection : NPR

 

[Retired W4]

As for the transponder "failing," it is common for the lead aircraft only to have the transponder set to transmit while the other aircraft in the flight--the lost wingman in this case--to have theirs in standby, on but not transmitting.

That is true but it only takes a few seconds to go from standby to on and squawk 7700 before pulling the handle. I guess he was pretty busy, but I was not there so I don't know. All military aircraft have check lists and they are written in blood. I have not seen the F-35 Emergency Procedures CL and so far I have no idea what prompted him to pull the handle.

 

[Retired W4]

'Not sure where the airplane is,' pilot told 911 dispatcher after F-35 ejection : NPR

When did the USMC learn all that gobly goop double talk? The statement was obviously geared to the lowest common denominator. The USAF is much better at covering thing up.

 

[MDF4]

That is true but it only takes a few seconds to go from standby to on and squawk 7700 before pulling the handle. I guess he was pretty busy, but I was not there so I don't know. All military aircraft have check lists and they are written in blood. I have not seen the F-35 Emergency Procedures CL and so far I have no idea what prompted him to pull the handle.

I haven't read all the articles about this but has it been established the pilot initiated the ejection sequence or did "Hal' determine their was a problem and punched him out?
The good news...the pilot can now submit membership request for the Martin-Baker club...

 

[WR Moore]

I haven't read every post, but I do want to bring up how modern aircraft (come to think of it, and a lot of our automotive controls) work. In ye olden days, the various controls were directly linked to whatever they operated. In the modern world of the micro chip, the pilots controls send signals to the flight systems computer (or whatever they call it-let's go with "Hal"). "Hal" then evaluates the input, checks flight parameters and then decides just how much of the input it's going to implement. If any.

Given the trend to computerized records, ain't gonna be any pencil whipping of maintenance records. Absent galaxy class hacking talent, any alterations in records will be time stamped.

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

Heard two SC rednecks found it and turned it into a swamp buggy.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Heard two SC rednecks found it and turned it into a swamp buggy.

 

[LVSteve]

Heard two SC rednecks found it and turned it into a swamp buggy.

The joke is on them given the poor history of the F-35 motor.

 

[AJ]

Maybe these guys will find it

Robert

And what is wrong with this? That is called a "Field Expedient" to getting the job done.

 

[Doug M.]

The odds of a foreign power recovering the plane after a crash in the continental US are so small I can't even think it is a real risk. While I am as fascinated by the issues involved as anyone else, I suspect that barring a really glaring cause, we will not have an answer for most of 2 years, and there are likely to be security issues involved if there is any vulnerability revealed.

 

[AJ]

The odds of a foreign power recovering the plane after a crash in the continental US are so small I can't even think it is a real risk. While I am as fascinated by the issues involved as anyone else, I suspect that barring a really glaring cause, we will not have an answer for most of 2 years, and there are likely to be security issues involved if there is any vulnerability revealed.

The biggest threat to a crash site is souvenir hunters. That is why it is cordoned off.