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

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278 points Michelangelo11 | 1 comments | 27 Aug 25 11:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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mytailorisrich ◴[27 Aug 25 12:39 UTC] No.45038823[source]▶
The F-35 is unstable by design and requires constant adjustments by the computer system to fly. So it is actually impossible to "just" turn the computer off and fly manually.
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1. oldpersonintx2 ◴[27 Aug 25 13:34 UTC] No.45039473[source]▶
been the case since the F16, which was the first to have such a characteristic