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Exclusive: U.S. Marine Corps F-35C Suffers Nose Landing Gear Collapse While Parked (theaviationist.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Mr. FRODO! NOOO

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (2 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."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Specifically the front did not fall off here.