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Sam Adams
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Mon Sep 18 02:44:47 2023
In peacetime.

http://x.com/TeamCharleston/status/1703523385475534968?s=20


Pilot(probably a diversity hire) ejected from a flyable plane and it continued flying. Its a stealth plane so its hard to track. Now no one knows where it went.

Rofl
Sam Adams
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Mon Sep 18 02:46:02 2023
So the air force put out a tweet asking if anyone has seen their missing stealth fighter.

Amazing.
obaminated
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Mon Sep 18 02:52:03 2023
Lol. It's a troll, pretty funny.
obaminated
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Mon Sep 18 02:53:53 2023
Nope. It's real. Damn, that's embarrassing.

http://www...ot-ejects-mishap-officials.amp

Paramount
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Mon Sep 18 07:59:49 2023
It may be in the hands of the Mexican cartels now.
TheChildren
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Mon Sep 18 14:21:06 2023
"stealth" u mean flyin lemon

jergul
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Mon Sep 18 14:24:27 2023
Sammy
You were saying about Russian pilots?
Rugian
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Mon Sep 18 14:36:37 2023
F-35s should still have transponders, right?

Oh wait...

"The jet's transponder, which would help officials find the aircraft, was not working "for some reason that we haven't yet determined," Huggins said."

And

"Missing F-35 Could Keep Flying For 'Hundreds of Miles' on Autopilot"

http://www...marines-south-carolina-1827714

Wtf
Sam Adams
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Mon Sep 18 16:37:33 2023
"You were saying about Russian pilots?"

This would happen every day in russia, except they dont have stealth planes and cannot afford fuel and spare parts to fly much.
jergul
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Mon Sep 18 16:57:37 2023
Me thinks they are racking in significantly more hours than your average USAF pilot.
jergul
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Mon Sep 18 17:01:08 2023
(aviation kerosene costs 400 USD per ton).
obaminated
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Mon Sep 18 17:03:19 2023
Tracker turned off and pilot ejects from plane that kept flying? Pretty suspicious.
Sam Adams
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Mon Sep 18 18:17:34 2023
"Me thinks they are racking in significantly more hours than your average USAF pilot."

Lolwut
jergul
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Mon Sep 18 18:43:54 2023
6 hours per active pilot per month is not a high bar.
obaminated
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Mon Sep 18 19:03:19 2023
Lol. Jergul making things up again. Average is a little more than 10 hours of flying per month.

http://www...om%2010.9%20hours%20in%202020.

Not sure what would be the acceptable number of active flight hours for a pilot during peace time. Honestly 10 hours a month seems like enough to keep the pilot from growing unfamiliar with the machine.

The tracker was turned off and the pilot ejected while the plane was capable of flight. This doesn't seem like an experience issue.
murder
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Mon Sep 18 19:10:07 2023

Well it's in the lake or it's in the ocean. Anywhere else would have produced a very noticeable explosion and fire.

Transponder off, autopilot engaged, and the pilot ejects a flyable jet? Yeah, I'm not buying that this was an accident.

The pilot should get locked up for life, and so should whoever the hell was running the training exercise.
jergul
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Mon Sep 18 19:23:31 2023
http://www...ne-again-after-brief-recovery/
jergul
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Mon Sep 18 19:24:26 2023
6.1 hours month for a fighter pilot does not seem like enough to keep one from getting out of the aircraft midflight.
Paramount
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Mon Sep 18 19:42:21 2023
” Transponder off, autopilot engaged, and the pilot ejects a flyable jet? Yeah, I'm not buying that this was an accident.”

Not sure if the jet can land by itself on autopilot. But if it can the pilot may have agreed to sell the fighter jet to someone. He turned off the transponder, engaged autopilot and ejected. The fighter jet then flew to Mexico, landed, and was picked up by the cartels, Russia or the Chinese.
Paramount
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Mon Sep 18 23:40:29 2023
Although, it would probably have been smarter for him to fly the jet to Mexico himself, get the cash, and then seek asylum there.
murder
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Mon Sep 18 23:49:38 2023

An F-35 is not making it from South Carolina to Mexico.

You're better off going with a "the fighter was hacked and stolen" angle.

murder
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Tue Sep 19 00:44:08 2023

Apparently the wreckage has been found in South Carolina.

jergul
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Tue Sep 19 00:53:50 2023
Aww, it lost its stealth characteristics?
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