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The World's First Female Pilot Of An F-35 Fighter Crashed In The First Flight
2022-02-09
[1healthytips]Following the publication of a video of a collision between an American F-35 fighter and the deck of an aircraft carrier, it became known that the world’s first female F-35 pilot was behind the wheel of a fifth-generation US Navy fighter. This, according to American sources, was her first flight from the deck of the aircraft carrier, which turned out to be enough to destroy a fighter worth more than $ 100 million.

Carl Vinson, a member of the American aircraft carrier crew, told the media that the fighter was piloted by a woman, noting that despite the fact that the woman had completed a full training course and successfully completed a takeoff and landing training program on the aircraft carrier deck, for her, the current flight was the first from the deck of a real warship.

It is noteworthy that in the video you can hear the crew furiously giving instructions to the F-35 pilot, probably realizing that the crash of the fighter will be virtually inevitable, and literally in a few moments the woman tries to align the fighter relative to the deck, but without success.

The US Navy Command has not yet commented on such information.

The world’s first female pilot of an F-35 fighter crashed in the first flight.

Posted by:746

#20  "Less dubious if it said parking?"

She mighta just been pulling over to ask for directions....
Posted by: Bangkok Billy   2022-02-09 21:12  

#19  I read on the burg the pilot was recently vaxed and had a heart issue in flight. This is the first mention of a female pilot. Hard to get the truth sometimes.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed   2022-02-09 18:09  

#18  Less dubious if it said parking?

Much less. Ground truth, even
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2022-02-09 16:28  

#17  LOL
Posted by: Frank G   2022-02-09 15:34  

#16  Less dubious if it said parking instead of landing?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-02-09 15:32  

#15  Jeez, you effin guys... I for one make million rubble by disable adblock and assimilate strategic healthy investment cerebellum!
Posted by: Unereger Scourge of the Apes5116   2022-02-09 15:24  

#14  ^ So, you're saying it's possibly dubious?
Posted by: Frank G   2022-02-09 15:07  

#13  ...The info in the article is dubious at best. Add that to it coming from a website called 1healthytips.co.uk, instead of anything resembling a trusted news or defense site, and this would be an entrant for The World's Most Dubious Story Award as presented at the World Dubious Story Festival on World's Most Dubious Story Day.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2022-02-09 13:21  

#12  the avionics on the F-35 are supposed to make landing the F-35 on a carrier much easier than landing the previous generation of fighters

but 'much easier' is still not 'easy'
Posted by: Lord Garth   2022-02-09 13:10  

#11  Something seemed hinky when the first reports of the accident lacked information about the pilot. I figured it was because she was a girl.

The article is certainly a hot mess, with the wrong pic and 'Carl Vinson' as the source. Using "Carl Vinson" to anonymize a source is lame. My guess is a combination of bad reporting/worse editing. Internally, I believe the Navy refers to the Vinson as CARL VINSON. It is not a great leap to go from "a source on Carl Vinson" to "a source, Carl Vinson".

More information would be nice.
Posted by: SteveS   2022-02-09 12:42  

#10  Cell phone video shows landing gear down. Carrier center line camera shows pilot went well below landing glide slope. Can't tell from video whether under pilot control or by insufficient speed. 2-3 seconds from LSO telling pilot to wave off and ramp strike.

Article is crap. Not first female F-35 pilot and probably not first F-35C pilot, if the article even got the female pilot right. USAF F-35A demonstration pilot is female.
Posted by: Hupavish Speaking for Boskone8393   2022-02-09 12:40  

#9  Very possible landing gear was was not deployed and may explain excitement by crew.
Posted by: crazyhorse   2022-02-09 12:07  

#8  Just a dumb Army (54A,12A,35D) combat arms guy question, but the two grainy video images I have seen seem to suggest the landing gear was not down. Did I miss something
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2022-02-09 11:55  

#7  Sounds like the article is bunk -- can't tell the ship from a sailor, and blames a pilot in the wrong service.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2022-02-09 11:34  

#6  Article makes so little sense I am apt to believe it.

"Don't tell me which direction to go!"
/F-35 Jetta Driver
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-02-09 11:11  

#5  ^This - and we've this act before.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2022-02-09 11:04  

#4  DoD WOKE headline grabber gone terribly bad.

Bill payer = US taxpayers.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-02-09 10:37  

#3  Her first landing? Or her first carrier landing?

Why would your first landing be on a flatop and not in the Nevada desert somewhere where runway length was painted on a vast expanse of asphalt.
Posted by: ruprecht   2022-02-09 10:31  

#2  Something is off... Lt. Col. Christine Mau is the pilot shown in the article, but she is in the Air Force. There are other women F-35 pilots, including one in the Marines that have flown off ships and aircraft carriers. Why was Lt Col. Mau doing her very first landing on a real ship when she is in the Air Force?

Sounds like a recipe for disaster. We need more information.
Posted by: DarthVader   2022-02-09 10:13  

#1  This source uses the carrier's name as the name of a sailor that's supposedly their source. While I could see the Navy assigning Carl Vinson to sail on the USS Carl Vinson, I think it's much more likely the articles source is profoundly ignorant.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2022-02-09 10:12  

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