Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "WFAA" channel.

@Ohwowamazing His grandpa was probably younger than Biden and chuckled at Biden's 1988 joke of a campaign.
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@GT-mn3bx USMC and USN bought the following single engine jets back when jet engines were nowhere near as reliable as today: A-4 Skyhawk F-8 Crusader A-7 Corsair II AV-8A Matador AV-8B Harrier II F-35B and F-35C have the most reliable fighter engine ever built.
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@dresinc1684 Firearms ownership isn't a partisan issue, it's a human one. It's very condescending to assume that only one group of the populace is interested in their safety, especially when you exclude all women and all men who might have different ideas about government.
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@noahhastings6145 The highly complex F-35B is far safer than any previous fighter. It has an amazingly-low mishap rate compared to other fighters. F-35A is even safer. Both are easier to maintain than F-16s. For reference, we have lost 65 F-16s with 38 fatalities over the past 10 years. F-16 was the safest single engine fighter until F-35s came along.
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It’s a 0/0 ejection seat system from Martin Baker.
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@yecyec3927 This airframe will be repaired and fly again from what I can see. Airframe stayed totally intact with very minor damage. Engine still intact.
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@tkeuvelaar9689 Lockheed F-35B pre-delivery Functional Check Flight. Do you know who the customer was? USMC, UK, and Italy have been taking deliveries of F-35Bs for years now.
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@GT-mn3bx You missed the point of how twin-engined fighter aircraft can't be mass-produced by the thousands anymore. F-4 was the last one that saw huge production numbers and if made today, would cost more than the F-35s. Current aircraft in production with 2 engines: Rafale Typhoon Super Hornet F-15EX None of these can go into the MEZ without F-22, F-35, or EA-18Gs, and the WEZ keeps getting bigger and more dangerous. Those designs all cost more than F-35s, and are much harder to maintain, taking 3-4x the hours per flight to work on.
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@GT-mn3bx Super Hornets have 2 engines, and so did the F-14. Both are less reliable and less safe than the F-35C. Pilots like to come home alive, so if you look at mishap rates, you would rather be in the fighter that brings you home.
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@mus3504 All 3 variants of the F-35 work more reliably than any other fighter design out there. Reliability and extremely low maintenance man hours per flight hour bear that fact out, and there isn't any way for you to refute that.
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@davidrenton F-35A, not even including the X-35A, has been flying since 2006. F-35B since 2008, F-35C since 2010. F-35A/Is and F-35Bs have been on constant deployments to CENTCOM across multiple nations' services and have been involved in years of continuous combat operations, including bombing, launching air-to-surface missiles within hostile MEZs, and shooting down aircraft. Cumulative fleet flight hours has exceeded 610,000 hrs, so yes, we are able to compare the 875+ F-35s that have been built to the lesser quantities of F-14s, A-10s, and comparable quantities of F-16s and F/A-18s that were built from the 1970s-1990s. All 3 JSF variants have dramatically-superior safety records, and far superior effectiveness in combat. Safety is measured in mishaps per 100,000 flight hours. In the last 10 years, we have lost 65 F-16s, with 38 fatalities.
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@davidrenton More F-35s have been built than F-14s and the F-14's first 10 years of history involved 73 crashes with 19 fatalities. F-35s jumped straight into combat with Israeli Air Force, USMC, USAF, and UK Air Forces as soon as they went IOC. That hasn't stopped since 2017.
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No such thing as Democrats or Republicans in DC, only millionaires doing the bidding of billionaires.
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@Shaominghui Yup. He told his Syracuse University roommate he had to choke the chicken before stepping out into public, otherwise he couldn't keep his hands off kids. His fiancés parents hated him, knew he was a kiddy-diddler.
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Vote for gridlock. Curses be upon Congressrat swampvermin scumbag sons of skanks.
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Shouldn’t be too bad. This might not even be $500,000. Nose landing gear needs to be repaired. Surface/superficial damage to any part that came in contact with the ground. Engine appears to be intact. The manufacturing facility is right there, so this could be one of the least expensive repairs on a mishap aircraft in F-35 history.
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@johnp139 Unless it bent the airframe, I doubt it. Look at the number of F-16s that have run off runways and became sod scarfers. Returned to flight after parts replacements.
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@dreamrestore213 Please name me these peaceful, "normal societies" free from violence. Fireworks in many of the 30 other countries I've been to sound like a war zone, and none of them were free from violence. Most do not have professional, well-paid police, so the police are seen as just a uniformed gang of licensed criminals. Look up the Nordic Biker Wars, Beslan, Paris attacks, school shootings in Netherlands, Finland, Germany, etc. Police mass murderer in South Korea who took M-2 Carbines and hand grenades from the armory and slayed 56 people, with another 33 wounded. The utopia you cite doesn't exist.
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@kennyelmore530 America is surprisingly weak with our fireworks displays. My first wake-up call to that was in Japan in the summer of 1991, when they celebrate getting out of school. We were on our host family friend's boat in Yokohama Bay, watching the fireworks from there. After several hours, as I rubbed the sweat off my arms, black streaks of ash smeared all over. It was literally raining ash from all the fireworks. 6 hours into it, we were done but it kept on going. Russia was like a war zone for New Year's. They had pallets of these huge fireworks tube cannisters that have 2-3" stacked munitions inside them. You set those off and thet continued to kick out heavy warheads of flash powder that rock the apartment buildings like mortar fire. They are loud enough to hurt your ears even as you hunker down indoors.
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@Justin-ee3im No. This was a functional test flight pre-delivery to the customer. Lockheed does that with every F-35 out of this base. We’ll have to wait for the investigation to explain what exactly happened.
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