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magpie.tips • 4 days ago

Jets yearn for the sea floor

Is there a punch card for this? How many jets do you have to lose to get a free ice cream?
www.businessinsider.com/us-navy-airc...

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meganreally.bsky.social•4 days ago

Where are those vindictive orcas, can they learn to pilot a jet

draugmith.bsky.social•4 days ago

actually, i'm suddenly imagining a trickster-type like Bugs Bunny or the Joker hiding around a corner with a saw and a piece off of the end of the carrier

nimasprout.bsky.social•4 days ago

Now I'm curious about stats on how many plans are lost like this every year.

rivetgeek.aggregatecognizance.com•4 days ago

A handful, maybe. The one thing about landing on an aircraft carrier is it's a moving target that's a fraction of the size of a land airstrip. A lot can go wrong getting a plane landed safely, especially if other factors are involved.

magpie.tips•4 days ago

yeah I feel like it's not usually 3 over a couple weeks

rivetgeek.aggregatecognizance.com•4 days ago

Or 3 over 6 months. An escort accidentally shot down the third from the Truman in December. And in Feb they collided with another vessel. Things are not going well on that boat.

ouinne.bsky.social•4 days ago

We’ve lost more planes in the last six months than in the last 20 years of combat, per Wikipedia’s list of aircraft lost in action.

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