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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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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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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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1. 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.