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F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crash

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278 points Michelangelo11 | 4 comments | 27 Aug 25 11:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.308s | source
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preisschild ◴[27 Aug 25 11:53 UTC] No.45038390[source]▶
But why was there water in the hydraulic system in the first place?
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1. 4gotunameagain ◴[27 Aug 25 12:05 UTC] No.45038515[source]▶
Because US$40 billion was apparently not enough to avoid problems that did not affect cold war era airplanes.

Maybe everything was colder back then so they took it into account ? Dunno.

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2. MobiusHorizons ◴[27 Aug 25 13:47 UTC] No.45039622[source]▶
Cold War era planes also had a lot of problems. The YouTube channel “not a pound for air to ground” has some great content about planes from that era, and reliability was sometimes absurdly poor.
3. estearum ◴[27 Aug 25 14:23 UTC] No.45040143[source]▶
Avoid problems like humans putting water into the hydraulic system? [Virtually] no amount of money is going to solve that.
4. FridayoLeary ◴[27 Aug 25 14:41 UTC] No.45040400[source]▶
WW2 planes never suffered from confused sensors bringing the plane down and they were much much cheaper and effective. Look at the kill rate of the spitfire. Even heavy bombers had a decent chance of bringing down fighters.