Just how?

>>64001561 (OP)
post the video retard

>>64001561 (OP)
I didn't shut the cargo door on the archer all the way one time and it blew open on the run up/takeoff and like 10 jugs of motor oil fell out and blew up all over the runway. Non towered so I just scooted out, good luck next guy lol.

>>64001563
No video as far as I know
>"Redhome Aviationis a plane watcher/photographer who camps out at Tinker AFB all the time. He takes amazing photos. The B-52 shot with the orange test livery that recently circulated is his too"
https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1m31gg3/an_f35_fighter_jet_lost_a_panel_shortly_after/

>>64001572
nobody has the reaction time to capture the exact moment, and that's obviously another frame of the same video

>>64001561 (OP)
This is why I always order Chinese.

The radar profile went from insect to B-52 real quick, kek.

>>64001579

>>64001573
>nobody has the reaction time to capture the exact moment,
cameras aren't humans, anon

>>64001561 (OP)
A WHOLE small panel? On ONE plane? That's like HALF a PERCENT of an aircraft! What about the STEALTH? What will stop Chinese radar from detecting my dolphin porn collection now?

>>64001592
I've seen vatniks using the exact same wording. Do you get collectively trained somewhere?

>>64001561 (OP)
I am of demoralize.
We must cancel the F-35 Пpoгpaммa and demolish the existing aircraft to hide this shame.

>>64001601
Vatniks are being trained to mock the vatniks who mock vatniks in the same facilities now? Did I miss something?

>>64001561 (OP)
does anyone have an image without an obnoxious border and/or watermark

>>64001620
here u go bro

>>64001621
thanks triple nigger

>>64001627
ur wel cum

>>64001561 (OP)
With this, fate has struck the final blow to the West and its end is certain

>>64001615
Ф-35
Looks kinda ok

>>64001561 (OP)
Someone on the ground crew is going to spend the rest of their enlistment counting sand grains at Nellis.

>>64001775
That's impossible.

>>64001561 (OP)
Lockheed also hit by American quality control line Boeing?

>>64001572
So... This is, real? Like this really happened?

>>64001571
GA is a magical place, where anything can happen

>>64001561 (OP)
Panel not needed, plane is ok.

>>64001890
It's Locksneed Shart now, sweatie.

>>64001852
It is entirely possible to spend a couple of years counting sand. It isn't probable that that would be your punishment though.
Article-15, loss of pay and extra duty are three more likely punishments.
Plus the hate of everyone that has to do extra recurring training on securing hatches.

>>64001906
>It's Locksneed Shart now
That's justcstupid, it doesn't even rhyme.

>The panel just fell off
Is that typical?

>>64001987
There are a lot of these planes going around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don't want people thinking that fighter jets aren't safe.

>>64001561 (OP)
Russia-tier maintenance and ground crews. Shameful. If this happened in China the mechanics entire bloodline would be suicided out of shame, which is why it doesn't happen.

>>64001571
fuckin asshole lmao

Russification of US military continues.
It's over, guys.

>>64001573
this dude probably just takes rapid fire photos

>>64001561 (OP)
Hung over maintainers have always been an issue in aviation, I know a helicopter mechanic that turned up to work still drunk and covered in blood from a pub brawl.

>>64001561 (OP)
easily repaired for $20,000,000

>>64001561 (OP)
RIP the poor NCOs, lower ranked officers, and other enlisted in whatever ground crew unit that are going to spend this weekend and next week going through absolute ass raping with paperwork, stand downs, and extra duty.

>>64002715
kek. with chinese knockoff parts too.

>>64001561 (OP)
Have a thread about how they discovered that problem
https://nitter.poast.org/the_engi_nerd/status/1942376323751563593#m
> Two photos here from the USAF. The first is from 2013, with a maintainer opening an F-35's Maintenance Interface Panel (MIP). The second photo is more recent, showing a maintainer performing the same task. But something's changed: the MIP now has marks near each fastener. Why?

> The answer is: to give the maintainer a visual confirmation that they've properly closed the door prior to flight. And like everything, there's a story about what happens when that door ISN'T closed.

> In 2015, F-35B BF-04 was slated to perform some supersonic weapons environmental tests. One fine sunny day, we were doing just that: opening up the right hand weapons bay, exposing the stores there to the supersonic environment.

> But, apparently the ground crew had not properly closed BF-04's MIP prior to this supersonic run. After aerial refueling, the F-18 chase pilot came on the radio: "TEST, CHASE, there is a hole in the starboard side of your aircraft, just aft of your intake."

>>64001561 (OP)
>>64002828
> This was another one of those moments where, as an instrumentation engineer in the control room, all you can do is sit there and watch. Our pilot immediately declares an emergency, trims out, and turns back to base. Fortunately, the jet is controllable and isn't leaking fuel.

> Landing was uneventful, though the ground crew did say "Holy shit!" over the radio when they saw the hole in the side of the jet. I wish I had been allowed to take photos, but alas.

> The MIP hadn't been secured and the high speed airflow past it had ripped the door, with hinge, off the aircraft entirely, taking a chunk of the aircraft along with it. As I recall, it took about a month total for the repair. The aircraft went on to conduct ski jump tests.

> So now you know why the F-35 has those panels with the semicircles on them. Line the fastener, which is half-painted, up with the semicircle painted on the surrounding panel. If it's not lined up, you've got a problem!

Seems like the DOD is still managing to find better idiots though

>>64002832
>Trusting a masked up brown to properly service your aircraft
Grim.

>>64001573
>nobody has the reaction time to capture the exact moment
A photographer taking shots like that is just holding down the button and spamming high-speed snaps.
Any DSLR does it, most phones can do it.

>>64002828
>>64002832
Very interesting "cut-away" pic of a hatch, not sure if the OP incident or another.

>>64002945
>a masked up brown
A fume-huffing redneck isn't an improvement.

>>64001561 (OP)
>Just how?
mechanic forgot to fully close the latches

>>64001579
that's not how rcs works

>>64003131
it quite literally is

>>64003252
What kind of contrarian are you that you think using by-the-book safety equipment makes you worse at your job?

>>64003262
what makes him worse at his job is his race

>>64003246
It certainly is. I may have exaggerated with the effects of this small panel, but it's common knowledge that rcs of stealth planes increases when opening bay doors.

>>64003281
>I may have exaggerated with the effects of this small panel
thank you for proving my point.

>>64001601
are the vatniks in the room with you right now?
nu-/k/ is such a bunch of fucking retards, it's unreal.

>>64003291
I agree. I live in the best warm water port in Texas and seeing nu/k/ fall to these levels is worrying

>>64001561 (OP)
retarded mechanics that either didnt screw it in or didnt didnt perform a regular fatigue check/replacement on the bolts holding it

>>64002832
>shitskin maintenance crew
All is explained.
Lmao at the US good luck maintaining your empire in the 2030s when Chynuh challenges you, kek.

What blew up or sank in west taiwan today?

An F-35 just flew over my ho-OW!

>>64002043
So what happened to this one?

>>64001573
A decent camera can do 15 FPS at full resolution raws. High end can do much more.

>>64001561 (OP)
Embarrassing.

>>64003281
Exactly right. He's malding.

>>64002832
>Seems like the DOD is still managing to find better idiots though
It is physically impossible to 100% idiot-proof anything. You just make it as rugged as possible with reasonable effort and then focus on more important matters.
The equipment is not the problem. The idiots are. Thus it would be better to focus on fixing the idiots with adequate training.

>>64002832
>>64005201
When you idiot proof something, the world just builds a better idiot. Still a good thing to try and do most of the time.

>>64002062
Yeah it's never happen cumrad

>>64005024
Well a tile fell off, but it's very unusual, I'd like to make that point.

so, if this happened in war, and we assume there's nothing important behind it: would this completely ruin the stealth effect?

>>64001573
>nobody has the reaction time to capture the exact moment,

A Nikon Z9, as an example of a top-end camera used by professional photographers for things like motorsport, or aircraft flypasts has a continuous burst fire rate in .RAW image format of 20 frames per second, for up to 1000 frames.

that's 50 seconds of continuous still shots.

If you drop that from .RAW to .JPG format, it can do that at 30FPS, for more than a minute.

Its literally point, aim, press the button, and go through the shots later to find the ones that are best.

>>64001852
I know a guy who spent his last 4, 5 months inspecting tires from sun up to sun down. Fucking staring at tread because they all hated him. Checks out, I hate him too.

>>64003262
Well it's an N95 mask in a chemical environment so... gg Indian.

>>64001561 (OP)
>Just how?
Endemic competency crisis.

>>64003246
6.4% of surface area on a kind of specific axis and also depending on how many radars are watching that one angle to triangulate.
I guess if we're fighting the UK for some reason or France decides to be French this is a problem. S-400 can't even take advantage of this, it's just filtered.

>>64003262
>mask mandates
Indication that the national/military leadership is retarded.
>brown
Indication that the individual is retarded.

The very fucking obviously correct response from the US military to covid should have been to immediately require daily cardio exercise for all staff drawing a DoD paycheck, and to require active soldiers/airmen/sailors to live communally and contract the disease before adversarial militaries did.

That a young male working OUTSIDE at an airbase was required to wear a mask in August of 2020 is an indictment of the entire military command, including Trump.

>>64007358
Stealth is a spectrum, and directional. It would become more observable, mainly from aspects where a radar would have line-of-sight on the missing panel. The plane overall would still be stealthier than any 4th-gen fighter and RCS on the opposite side would be largely unaffected.
You would still want to get the plane back at base for repairs ASAP, for mechanical reasons moreso than stealth.

>>64005254
When you're in full control of which idiots get to touch your plane, YOU are the cause of the idiot problem.

>>64001572
Bad place to hide the list

>>64001563
There is no video. It was a series of rapid-shot photos by an air enthusiat supplying images to chinese spies.

https://www.koco.com/article/panel-flies-off-of-f35-tinker-air-force-base/65442273

>>64004564
>In other news, local plane autist "Anon Y. Mouse" pictured here was struck by a piece of falling F-35 fuselage
>He had nothing to say in comment and was last seen unloading a crate labeled "A.C.M.E. SAM DIY Kit" as aggressive violin tones perfectly matched his exaggerated movements

>>64002832
>So now you know why the F-35 has those panels with the semicircles on them. Line the fastener, which is half-painted, up with the semicircle painted on the surrounding panel. If it's not lined up, you've got a problem!
Why not just use a torque wrench?

>>64009336
>brown hands

>>64003262
Mechanics like dunking their hands in oil and then eating lunch without even bothering to wash. Huffing paint and eating heavy metals is a badge of honor to these fucking retards.
They are untermensch, all of them.