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Exclusive: U.S. Marine Corps F-35C Suffers Nose Landing Gear Collapse While Parked (theaviationist.com)
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[–] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Eh, it's nothing another 3,000,000,000 won't fix

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

it's like these toys are designed to suck up as much tax money as possible

[–] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 7 months ago

It's late stage capitalism. Basically a state run economy that only benefits the private sector

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 7 months ago

Mr. FRODO! NOOO

[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

This headline is absolutely wrong. "Collapse" means that it structurally failed. But that isn't what happened, the nose gear started retracting. Now whether that was appropriate or not, we can discuss, but if the machinations of the landing gear are functioning as designed, even if the timing of those machinations was incorrect, you can't say it "collapsed."

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

Specifically the front did not fall off here.

[–] Glimpythegoblin@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

It could be as simple as a bad sag sensor so it didn't sense any load on the gear to prevent retraction. Not really a big story. Failures happen in every system. It's only an issue if it happens to more units.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

A sensational headline about a widely lampooned jet, and it's the specific model that caused most problems. I'm shocked.