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[–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I'm gonna need some context or I will assume Dinkelberg took it.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Pilot ejected, thing kept flying on autopilot. Military now can't find it. Funny story

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah, so, why did the pilot eject, if the plane was still flight worthy?

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    It wasn't flight-worthy, it just hadn't crashed yet. If your jet stopped properly responding to controls and you had the opportunity to eject and probably not die rather than crash and almost certainly die, what do you think you would do? Also if it lost power, it would still fly for a bit because momentum and airfoils and physics and such, but not be transmitting its position because no power, which makes it kinda hard to track because like, y'know, stealth aircraft

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  • [+] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Wasn't it a Marine Corps 35?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Correct, it was an F-35B flown by a USMC pilot out of MCAS beaufort.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Interesting, isn't the bravo model the Navy variant? I thought the C was the VTOL?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The transponder not working isn't a bug, it's a "super-stealth mode" to hide from both your enemies and friends!

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