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2022-02-09 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

The World's First Female Pilot Of An F-35 Fighter Crashed In The First Flight

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Posted by 746 2022-02-09 09:45|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

#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|| 2022-02-09 10:12|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-02-09 10:13|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-02-09 10:31|| Front Page Top

DoD WOKE headline grabber gone terribly bad.

Bill payer = US taxpayers.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-02-09 10:37|| 2022-02-09 10:37|| Front Page Top

#5 ^This - and we've this act before.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2022-02-09 11:04|| 2022-02-09 11:04|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-02-09 11:11|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-02-09 11:34|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-02-09 11:55|| Front Page Top

#9 Very possible landing gear was was not deployed and may explain excitement by crew.

Posted by crazyhorse 2022-02-09 12:07|| 2022-02-09 12:07|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-02-09 12:40|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-02-09 12:42|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-02-09 13:10|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-02-09 13:21|| Front Page Top

#14 ^ So, you're saying it's possibly dubious?

Posted by Frank G 2022-02-09 15:07|| 2022-02-09 15:07|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-02-09 15:24|| Front Page Top

#16 Less dubious if it said parking instead of landing?

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-02-09 15:32|| 2022-02-09 15:32|| Front Page Top

#17 LOL

Posted by Frank G 2022-02-09 15:34|| 2022-02-09 15:34|| Front Page Top

#18 Less dubious if it said parking?

Much less. Ground truth, even

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-09 16:28|| 2022-02-09 16:28|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-02-09 18:09|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-02-09 21:12|| Front Page Top

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