Why F-35 Don't Fly During Thunderstorms
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What happens if lightning hits an airplane? Will it explode? Not anymore, but the reason is #NotWhatYouThink #NWYT #longs
00:00 Intro
00:18 Panam Plane Destroyed by Lightning
4:28 TWA Fuel Vapor Explosion
7:55 Solution to Lightning Strikes and Fuel Vapor
11:47 Why F-35 Can't Fly During Thunderstorms
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Electrons take the path of least resistance, so a Faraday cage is just a fancy name of a big conductive box
Current takes ALL paths, just that the most amount of charge flows through the path of least resistance.
they take all paths available to them
not that simple, faraday cages also shield against em radiation . also, current flows through all available paths so your explanation needs a follow up.
Oh yes, the same way a gasoline engine is just a bunch of iron? Thank you for your deep insight!
Electrons take all paths available, it's just that most electrons will take the path of least resistance.
In their defence of Cat A damage: it doesn't take much damage to an aircraft to rack up a $2.5 mil repair bill.
In an environment where toilet seats run $8K a pop, I'm inclined to agree.
Well the repair bill was probably 30 million.
god forbid someone touches a conformal antenna without gloves on.... Thats expensive...
Cat A was solely for loss of life 'til those same accountants got involved. Tell me, what's the cost of placing passenger seats facing backwards vs their value WHEN an aircraft crashes? What should one expect to pay to defy gravity?
@@sorennilsson9742 1999 one B2bomber crushin in Croatia when be a struck by lightning over Serbia
This was the first time I’ve seen footage of a plane with dummies that was crashed on purpose. I would not want to be in charge of the paperwork needed to get that approved.
@@agatagalavotti7886 No
It was called the Controlled Impact Demonstration if you're curious.
The crash required more than four years of preparation by NASA Ames Research Center, Langley Research Center, Dryden Flight Research Center, the FAA, and General Electric. After numerous test runs, the plane was crashed on December 1, 1984. The test went generally according to plan, and produced a spectacular fireball that required more than an hour to extinguish. (wiki)
@@agatagalavotti7886 shut up about your fishermen fetish porn
@@ayoutubechannel921 It's a robot, it's not listening.
There are so many misconceptions about air travel, no wonder some people find it terrifying.
Not only that, but the fear of falling, claustrophobia, etc. plays big part too.
@@TheRibbonRed Glide ratio. Multiple engines. Jetliner don't fall in 2021. They reach aerodynamic instability, explode, or have mechanical issues. You dont know how planes work, do you?
@@christophermccoy4605 I believe he was giving examples of some of the misconceptions
@@christophermccoy4605 why being so toxic dude, get life. You could still like kinda fall, you didnt even know what his interpetation is of falling right?
@@christophermccoy4605 "oh look at me, this guy is talking about phobias. Let me cure that with publicly known facts and call him an idiot!" Do try curing phobias of air travel with that. Psychologists have never succeeded [with that alone], but _clearly_ you think you're better, don't you?
AC7 fans: *sweats intensely*
Random AWACS: check ur HUD bro
first contact gave me ptsd
@@agatagalavotti7886 Shush bot
I swear that mission made most of my deaths in my first playthrough, lightning strike when I am in front of a mountain sucked
Bro i was about to say cuz i did that one stupid thundery mission with the F-35 like yesterday LMAO
Short answer : F-35s prohibited flying in or near thunderstorms due to issues with its onboard inert gas generation system, or OBIGGS. ... Damages to the tubes that deliver the nitrogen-enriched air led to lightning flight restrictions in June 2020
12:03 Thank you, novapixel. I understand that ytbers want u to watch their entire video . But damn, sometimes a 30sec clip could do the trick...
That's the short answer from the government who's most expensive, complicated, and secret toy doesn't work in adverse conditions. What's the "WHOLE STORY" Nova? What's your take on the CIA producing content for news sources after TWA flight 800¿?¿ I don't recall them having authority on any matter On U.S. soil, aircraft related or not.
@@truthsRsung That is the "whole story". Why does there have to be more?
@@AureliusR Because people like stocking up government conspiracies which may or may not be true to start fights in comment sections.
@@AureliusR ....The initial reports in situations like this, from this source, have a "trend" to be false. It isn't rarely, or sporadic. Ask this question, If the OBIGGS was toast, after a lightning strike, what else was damaged? Is this component cherry picked by the lightning (as it's sworn enemy😘) or the smiling Press Rep. from the Armed Forces? When the public swallows the pill of a story like, "shorted wiring on a 747 caused it to EXPLODE!!!," without verbage like "Circuit Breaker" or "Flash Point", I am ashamed of my species. If you think a Boeing Electrical Engineer would design a circuit in an aircraft that wasn't protected, or could pass it past other Supervising Engineers, I am disappointed. To say the least. What's the Flash Point of aviation fuel? Because that how hot that wiring has to get for it to go boom. I don't trust reports made by anyone that pays people to write them, especially a government agency tasked with delivering death. I use my solid, yet limited knowledge of the physical world to apply to their narrative. If it matches up, I agree with it. I wouldn't be a responsible American if I did.
How US military planes get nicknames from their biggest weaknesses. This episode: F-35 Lightning. Next episode: F-16 Falcon and A-10 Warthog.
Falcons go down from bird strikes and warthogs lose landing gear to animals on the ground I guess, lol
😂😂😂
A-10 is technically Thunderbolt II F-35 Lightning II
@@michaelusswisconsin6002 Thunderbolt II? Guess it gets too loud and pilots crash it out of frustration
can't wait for the raptor then
About 4 years ago I was flying into St. Louis when we hit a thunderstorm. I had a lonely flight back so I was very bored and spacing out the window. It was night so the only thing I could really see was a small light on the tip of the wing. As we were in a holding pattern above the air port and waiting to land, a lightning bolt struck that little light. I remember the entire cabin of the plane lit up like it was day time! Of course I was freaked out having just witnessed a lightning bolt blast out my only external light source. I spent the next half hour as the plane landed clutching the handles of my seat like I was trying to leave imprints in them. Finally as we get the plane parked the pilot gets on the radio and with a little laugh says "Well folks that was fun wasn't it! Don't worry, we get struck by lightning all the time." I really would have appreciated him telling us that earlier, like perhaps when the plane was flying through what looked like hell. 😨
He need to focus
@@prumchhangsreng979 oh I'm sure. That plane was rocking like crazy. I'm sure he was fighting it to get it to stay flat and level.
Kind of ironic how a jet nicknamed "Lightning" can't fly in thunderstorms which include lightning...
Indeed.
I thought that the moment I saw the thumbnail
Haha... that is ironic. The pilots unofficially call it the Panther or Fat Amy. I always thought it looked like a swimming penguin from the side😅
@@justinavery8664 the penguin part cracked me up lol
Because it is not true. kzhead.info/sun/jdiTfqajgpaFaI0/bejne.html
people in the past: "There will be flying cars in the future." me in the present: "Thank God, we dont have it."
I don’t want to end up in Wild West with no means of getting back either.
No kidding! People seem to have a hard enough time just driving on pavement .
@jeffduncan9140, and yet air travel is still safer than land
I've seen a couple videos on youtube now from fighter pilots about getting hit by lightning in F-16s, and other planes. CW Lemoine's channel specifically, a pilot almost couldn't land his plane because he was so punch drunk because lightning went through his body. So the danger of lightning isn't unique to F-35. On some fighters, there's a lot of luck protecting you, because there simply isn't enough room/weight for a robust lightning protecting system
No such thing as luck. Lightening rods are out in place on fighter jets.
If you payed attention to that video, he said that was unusual. Lighting strikes aren’t uncommon, but injuries are. It had to do with the pilot keying up the radio as lightning struck
@@ShawnHinck ....How often does the pilot of an aircraft have to touch controls in the cockpit. The crap you believe?
There isn't room because "Safety" (or the illusion of it) wasn't considered in the design of the aircraft. Whether you care for the term "efficiency" or "performance," enhancements have come at the cost of Safety. Admit the root cause.
@@truthsRsung it wasn’t that he was simply “touching” the controls, it’s that the radio was physically keyed up the moment the aircraft was struck. If the crap you believe actually happened, we’d have a lot more aircraft having issues with being struck by lightning.
WWII US aircraft carriers pumped inert gas into fuel lines after fueling aircraft. Japanese carriers didn't. Made a big difference in the ship's' abilities to survive attacks.
True, but the Japanese still launched lot of airstrikes In - and had the Japanese carriers did something similar as the Americans, they possibly could have lessened the punch they took at Midway.
My dad was an aviation fuel hauler in the US Army in the early 1990s. A friend of mine had the same MOS more recently and told me that formula for fuel has been changed since then, to reduce the risk of unintentional ignition.
Just to clarify some things here. Any damage taken to a stealth fighter and especially the F35 is taken as a CLASS A mishap, because of the functionality of the jet, it must remain mission capable at all times especially while operating overseas in japan. Its likely the Marine Corps treated these jets to a CLASS A mishap because of a lightning strike due to the fact that now they have to look over the whole jet and decipher if anything got extremely ruined. This is because its a brand new modern stealth fighter. I currently work with this jet when it is ship based, and have seen it operate in thunderstorms and less than preferable conditions with visibility below half a mile and rain pouring out of the sky faster than a showerhead could ever produce water past and present. I have SEVERE CONFIDENCE in the F35 program because ive seen it with my own eyes. Its extremely important we look after these jets so they can look after us when were in trouble. I can garuntee you these aircraft are ready, they are just under very close watch because its a very expensive program to keep a technological edge against opponents in (God Forbid) future conflicts.
i see. nice to read. i always hear only good things about the f35 from pilots , active service members and miltary analysts but sadly its all drowned out by the noise that is propaganda. all the issues with the jet just come with the territory, its new technology. read a comment before saying if social media existed in the 80s we wouldnt have planes 😹😹😹 how true that is
So can the F35 operates during thunderstorm like bf2042 gameplay
Thanks man.
@@navyseal1689 Yes.
Yeah, this is clickbait video. 80% of the video he talks about other aircraft
Center fuel tank: *Empty* Fuel vapor: So anyways I started combusting
Empty just means no usable fuel for flight. The fuel tanks are always wet with some remaining fuel. They are never completely dry.
Kaboom?
@@Srae17 Yes Rico, Kaboom
Also he very clearly said "almost empty" and talked about the small amount of fuel left in that tank. . .
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Called the Lighting, can’t fly through Lightning Edit: Oof. Someone beat me to it. Can’t catch lighting in a bottle twice. I’ll see myself out.
Guess lightning can strike twice in the same location
If it was called the "Lighting", it would be a fair assumption that it couldn't fly in sunlight.
6:39 wait a minute this is not true. the real reason is a bolt, which had come loose from the slat track, had punctured the right wing fuel tank, creating a hole 2-3 centimetres in diameter. and burned out when the flowing fuel came into contact with the hot air coming out of the engine ( guys ı was wrong this is different incident)
I’m so glad someone said something. You my friend gave me a smile.
you are wrong, the flight you are referring to is air China flight 120, he is talking about a thai flight 114, a 737 that burnt while sitting on the apron.
@@battleship5555 you are wrong, the flight you are referring to is air China flight 120, he is talking about a thai flight 114, a 737 that burnt while sitting on the apron.
@@sidv4615 yep you right ı just check and that diffirent story
@@sidv4615 to each their own
FYI The F-35 II was a multi national build, not solely designed by the US, infact the UK designed 20% of it with some of the more technical parts
Nicely presented. There's quite a bit more to aircraft-lightning interaction than that. Everything on an aircraft has to be certified to fly, which includes lightning withstand - from both the direct effects (high current, forces, and heating) and indirect effects (mainly interference on electrical systems). Having worked at one of the labs which does this, I can say it's great fun blowing up bits of planes to make sure they're safe when in use. Mainly specialized in fuel systems.
I thought the F-35's were hit by an electromagnetic spit from a kaiju
I want a pacific rim 3 lol tadara tadatara tada tada tada 🤣
Pacific rim😂😂❤️
I hope they will make a pacific rim 3, and I don’t care how everyone says the 2nd one was so bad
So a Lightning II is more dangerous than a Lightning...
Lightning is more dangerous than Lightning II.
so a lightning II strike can take out more aircraft than a lightning strike but a lightning strike can take out a lightning II its balanced
How f22 works perfectly fine but the f35 suck so bad
can't wait for Lightning 3, Tokyo Drift then edit, why didn't anyone make an Electric Boogaloo joke? it's literally perfect
@@navyseal1689 tbf the F22 also costs more than 3 times as much as the F35 per Unit
We had a 35 at my base get struck by lightning. Hit the top of the rudder completely destroying the functionality of it and probably caused $3-5m of damage.
So,the video is titled "Why the F-35 Can't fly in lightning " , it takes almost 12 minutes of a 17 minute video to get to it?
Plane: *Crashes after getting hit by lightning * Zeus who randomly shot a bolt a lightning: *Whoops*
Nah, he's thinking "Man, these flies are annoying."
I'm glad you clarified the military fighter jet variant of the F35, as opposed to the civilian variant. They are really 2 different systems entirely, and behave totally differently from each other.
Lol even the military variants are so different they could be considered separate species
Hey man, you need to specify if it's a paid advertisement or just personal suggestion, channels get nuked over this rule and I don't understand it but I'm pretty positive it exists
Just checked, it exists
Thanks. We checked "the box".
@@NotWhatYouThink Great! Thanks for the content
You and Mustard and my two most favorite and most informative KZheadrs about planes Mustard also does trains, and boats tho.
I love how in the ad the screen shows normal weather but the background is thunderstorming. Almost as if it doesn't do it's job of telling the weather
Imagine if you were already scared of flying and just saw your plane casually explode outside 😅
I was in the S. Pacific last year sailing to Peru and saw 3 F-35's flying low together during a thunder storm. I was approximately 40 miles from the coast when they flew over me, twice. I do not know why they would need to identify me so far from common American operational areas, but it was a treat to see them nonetheless. So, when you repeatedly stated they do not fly in thunderstorms, I can not help but chuckle.
You became a training opportunity. Likely trying to get close enough to use EOTS to see if anything "interesting" was happening on board.
Am i just dumb or was the question never answered? The OBIGGS system is combustion prevention, it was found damaged/not working as intended on one plane so it was redesigned in 2014. The Japan incident damaged the planes, but did the video ever tell us why? Something about the composites on the exterior used not providing lightning as it was expected to?
The OBIGGS has been sort of an ordeal because after the system was redesigned, a maintenance check found that the tubing got damaged so they put the restriction back in place. The video did address it but it was easy to miss. The damage in the Japan incident was not fully explained but the implication was that because the F-35 isn't a huge metal cage like other aircraft, there was no "Faraday protection" so there was damage even though they were still good enough to land.
@@ChucksSEADnDEAD ah so the redesign was a fail and not having Faraday protection was an oversight?
@@akita2438 I don't know if the redesign had a problem because it seems the issue was somewhere else, in the tubing. I'm not up to speed with the investigation and what caused the tubing to get damaged. There's no "oversight" per se, if you have too much exposed metal skin it stops being a stealth aircraft. The fact is that when non-stealth aircraft are pitted against stealth in exercises they get the floor wiped with them. There's just too much at stake to prioritize lighting protection when the aircraft can be repaired if hit by lighting, but there's no repair if they get split in half by a missile.
Yeah, this is just click bait. I'm going to ignore the channel.
@@gail_blue Yeah. 90% of the video has nothing to do with F35
Unfortunately the newer versions of those modern commercial planes skip the conductive fibers because of cost reasons and companies state that the other measures against fuel explosions are enough. It is widely believed that this will cause problems. >.>
TO FLY, FIGHT, WIN…AIRPOWER ANYTIME, ANYWHERE! Except when there’s a lightning in a 5-mile radius
So you can have air superiority against F35, just need a thunderstorm and any combatant aircraft capable of flying in said storm. Nice mil spec.
Basically any rain, stealth aircraft need to be repainted after taking mission
5-nautical*
Dude the F-35 can fly through thunderstorms just fine
@@youkofoxy Lightning is the least of your problems in a thunderstorm, tf?
What is being done to prevent or attenuate lightning damage to the F35? Not only is lightning an Achilles Heel, but interceptor and strike aircraft cannot choose the weather environment.
It actually can fly through lightning just fine, and does so all the time. It just attracts it more due to its coating.
@@jonathanpfeffer3716 explain.
@@taskforce0584 New system called OBIGGS fixed danger from lightning strikes.
I saw that Pan Am get hit and watched it come down. Just west of Elton MD. I was 17 at the time.
Wow.
There are some extremely important lessons in this video, the most notable of which is that corporate executives will willfully make decisions that result in the death of customers, if it means a few points short-term boost in their stock prices. Billionaires are so likely to be in this position that many make such decisions multiple times annually, knowing full well that somebody will probably die because of their decisions, but doing it anyway because they calculated that it will be cheaper than keeping that person alive. Also oxygen is the enemy of fuel tanks
2:52 grounding in an airplane lol (I know its not meant in the way we ground things in houses or sth like that)
That one baffled me as well. My first thought was that it would be something like the "ground" in cars. Which is just the car body being used as a common negative. Which in the case of lightning protection in aircraft doesn't make sense. As that would only interconnect all systems, ensuring that the lightning would get to them all. Upon a little reading it turns out that grounding in an aircraft is about interconnecting the shielding used around signal wires to avoid electromagnetic interference. And as such has nothing to do with lightning protection. Critical systems are protected by separating their electronics, not tying them together.
The F-35 specifically is designed to fly through thunder storms, getting struck by lightning is an extremely common thing for jets. And an F-35 is designed to take lightning strikes with very minimal damage. The radar absorbing material just attracts more lightning, making it more likely to be struck, but they fly through thunderstorms regularly it's no problem at all.
No... That is not the reason...
@Rosie Okay so you just stop by to talk trash with absolutely no point or case whatsoever. There is no fighter jet outside the US that is even close to a match for an F-35.
@@Rosie-ty5hulmao no examples just "weak" Thanks for giving me a chuckle 👍
I used to be an enlisted aircrewman in the US Coast Guard. On one flight in a USCG Lockheed HC-130H Hercules aircraft, we got struck by lightning. We checked the inside of the airplane, and as much of the outside as was visible from inside. We found no damage. After landing, it was discovered a small bit of the trailing edge of the left-hand aileron -- roughly 1/2 the size of an American silver dollar -- had been burned away. This did NOT affect the pilot's controllability of the aircraft during the remainder of the flight after the strike.
Wow, I was completely unaware that they LITERALLY piece the plane back together during the investigation. That must take some serious work
I can see how a lightning strike may not be too good for the radar absorbent material covering the plane.
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Why don’t they put some non flammable gas into the wing as it empties, so nitrogen or co2 would prevent the fuel from igniting until it gets into the engine
Weight
Wow, that's brilliant! It's almost like you watched the video
@@kamikaze1827 I only watched the first half🤦♂️
"Can lightning destroy an airplane?" Well with the power of god it can be happening
OMG I can't believe you spelled god like that. 😀
@@rick49 "God"
The F35 can fly in a thunderstorms now. It couldn't use the existing system because the F35 uses its fuel as hydraulic fluid. This requires high pressure in the tanks. This was fixed the the same way Bowing did it on the all carbon fiber 787. Titanium wire .
That fuel air mixture, It makes my motorcycle go, A true double edged sword that can be both beautiful and terrifying.
Me: *Have'nt thought of anything* NotWhatYouThink Channel: "It's not what you think."
4:35 a lot of people are under the impression it was shot down mistakenly by the navy and it was a coverup
Re: Radar for Weather Avoidance. What about radar beam attenuation that has been known to take down airliners due to misread weather conditions ahead?
Attenuation is a very well known occurrence and radar operators are trained to look for it. Pilots, however are not trained to the same standard and also have many other things that they have to pay attention to.
Me who weirdly read a report on this happening last week: Ya know, this time it is what I thought.
Me who not so weirdly have watched NWYT videos like 5-10 times over and it's still not what I think.
This is actually why SR-71s refueled just after takeoff. It's not what most people think. The real reason to top off the tanks is to remove all the oxygen from them, so the inerting system could fill the tanks with N2. The aircraft got so hot when flying supersonic it could ignite the fuel in the tanks.
Moral of the story: Criminal negligence is 100% acceptable as long as you are a group making it hard to point a finger at someone or rich.
He wasn’t “told”. He’s under the impression everything is alright He can always say: “I wasn’t made aware”
@@andile5945 who wasn't told? Everyone in the industry who knew they were choosing saving money over addressing a known risk responsible for numerous crashes? Did you watch the video?
Takata air bags are a prime example of this. Every investigation has been lead by government or independent bodies. In fact Ford and Mazda PETITIONED to remove some cars from the recall because it would cost too much money. No care in the world that all of their cars from the 90s to 2014 had frag grenades installed 30 cm away from millions of peoples faces waiting to pop just because it was cheaper to make the airbag casings thinner with cheaper explosives. It took many deaths and thousands of injuries to get governments to FORCE them to pay the $100/airbag replacement. Poor multi billion dollar companies can't afford that :( but they'll happily charge you $500 to install mats in your car.
To avoid the thunderstorms during the flight requires an almost impossible task but necessary to ensure the life of the crew and passengers.
F35? Passengers? Uhhhhhhhhh
3:07 this isn’t gonna be sponsored is it 😳 9:02 oh crap
They didn't disclose it im disappointed
Being named f35 lightning 2 really makes sense hahaha
this is literally one of the best channels across all of youtube
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At 12 minute of a total 17.... you finally get down to it. Thank you.
Weird, technically the storm shouldn't be able to detect the F-35
Hell yeah! Take some sponsors man! I love all your videos so much, they bring me a lot of entertainment and knowledge! Keep it up. I would probably even buy a shirt if you sold it!
All modern aircraft have static wicks... If a plane gets hit by lightning the electricity travels through the plane to the static wicks, which is than dissipated back into the air. So any modern aircraft can fly through a thunder storm fairly safely.
Static wicks are not an important factor in lightning protection.
This video needs to take a trip back to 2012 when this was relevant. F-35s haven't had this issue for more than 8 years now...
Yet it got banned from flying in thunderstorms in June of 2020. And the incident in Japan (which was unrelated to the OBIGGS system) was in July of this year, a few months ago.
well but it ruins the stealth if hit once but if it gets hit a few more times sooner or later the rest of the craft will get problems if they get hit more then once in quick selection is when the real problems with the craft shows up by the way lightning likes to hit high and large metal objects like a lot more than once if its the path of least resistance! in fact it can do that so fast that in 5 seconds lighting would have hit a object like that 6-10 times at that point! even i don't think even a F-35 with just its newest anti lightning systems would be able to handle that much that quick! if that kind of rapid multi lighting strike where to happen even the F-35 OBIGGS would not be able to handle all of that without taking a bit of damage in the process and would require mandatory repair post mission if the F-35s stealth wasn't fully compromised at that point from thermal heat sencture from the point of the strikes on the planes frame did not completely give their prosion away from thermal imaging detection equipment! this bescue by the way any area directly hit by lighting can get VERY VERY VERY VERY hot witch is bad for the F-35 stealth against enemy thermal detection anyway is one more reason the F-35 should not fly in thunderstorms! this is bescue anything struck by lightning even in a small point that point would be VERY VERY VERY HOT anyway! and i mean hotter than the surface of the sun hot would be! that is like very easy for most new heat imaging military systems to spot quite far away! so even if the F-35 has fully proper scheduling against lightning strikes! it would however would still become a big easy to see target from thermal imaging for a good amount of time directly after a lightning strike from the heat at the point of the strike on the frame would nullify any way of hiding from thermal imaging detection anyway!
@@ashtiboy There's so much wrong with this
Great content. Great music. Great topic. Felt like watching ACI and NWYT glued into one episode! 💪🏼💪🏼
The fuselage is hollow , while the outer layer is electrically conductive and separated from the inner fuselage by struts covered by rubber and wrapped with copper , this separates it from the non conductive composite inner , which allows the electric current to flow around and off of the aircraft leaving the airframe and its electrical systems intact.
For anyone who just wants the question answered: 11:48
... and for everyone else 0:00 😁
@@NotWhatYouThink You spent the first 12 min. of the video going through a history of plane crashes, to essentially say: "The F-35's system needs some more work." If you wanted to make a video about the history of plane crashes - thats fine. But alot of your videos have terribly click-baity titles - and the ones I've watched arnt actually very well researched. Im telling KZhead to stop recommending this channel's videos.
@@p0xus not a bad thing though as these topics weren't covered in military aviation books. Great info
@@jayjay53313 Well the majority of the video wasn't about military aviation is the problem. It was about civil aviation. If you looked into civil plane crashes you probably would have already known the majority of what was said here.
No but an ICBM sure can !
When you mentioned Saint Elmo's Fire, your video was not showing it. Saint Elmo's fire looks like the northern lights rolling around the windshield, what you showed was static electricity flow across the windshield, which is far more common than Saint Elmo's fire. Also, the plane is not "designed" to take lightning strikes, but they can. After a strike there's a huge maintenance event to demagnetize parts and inspect for damage that can ground the plane for a long time. The "design" you're referring to is static wicks, which are designed to dissipate static electricity, not lightning strikes. They do dissipate lightning, but usually get melted down to a nub in the process and have to be replaced.
I learned something new. I never knew the space above the fuel in the tank was called ullage. Very interesting and I will be using this phrase as much as possible. Ty!
That's a great scrabble word😄
I really doubt that the glider that I flew was hit by lightning. I also doubt that it could be in the air when lightning stikes
The Report by the British Investigation into the ASK-21 lightning strike was sobering for someone who has qualified parts to Euro/FAA norms for direct strike tests. Nature packs far more of a whallop than our test facilities can simulate.
I'm seeing a lot of "Toronto" in here... "It's not what you think!"
Love this type of informative videos bro good work, waiting for ur next one!!!
Excellent! Very well researched and presented
*there is a hole in your left wing*
"The sea was angry that day my friends, like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli."
PanAm Flight 214 crashed in my hometown of Elkton in 1963. I was so surprised when you mentioned it
I love your videos dude. Found you last week and have been watching ALL YO VIDS!
kinda ironic that it's called the f35 lightning
Why we made the video 😉
Well... It's not what you think
06:11 The aircraft was on the APRON, not on the tarmac. No part of an airport is called the "tarmac". Tarmac is what roads are made of.
Sounds like a skill issue on your end
The epilepsy kid watching this at 1:47 *Proceeds to do a break dance*
Considering the cupholder probably costs 100 000, 2.5 million in damages on the f35 probably isn't that hard to rack up.
All military costs seem to be to pay the admin staff to tell the person to watch the person watching the people tighten a screw
F-35: *all-weather fighter jet* Lightning: *let's embarrass that birb*
So Americans are actually naming their jets with what the model fears the most? F-15 Eagle (Birdstrike) F-22 Raptor (birdstrike) F-35 Lightning (thunderstorm) Maybe the next fighter will be named "bug" because how reliant it is on computers.
Man that old school R11 took me back.
I can’t believe it took till 2008 to have inert-gas volume equalisers in their fuel tanks. That’s embarrassing as hell.
Never put grenades in a fuel tank ✅
So much for being called “lightning 2” 💀
Worked on the Hound Dog Missiles' in the late 60' for the USAF. the AGM-28B had a 310 gallon fuel tank and any tome it was detached from the B-52 the tank was pressurized with a 1/2 half pound above atmospheric pressure with Nitrogen. But they always had Full tangs on the Trailer except after a GROUND engine run in Combined Systems Check out before UP load to the B-52 and the 1.1 megaton weapon was load and the Bird was load on the B-52 and sat on the alert pad for a month before being Test flown.
Because the US government didn't list it in the requirements. The Version going to Britain or Belgium can fly at Thunderstorms because it is EU law that it can
I bet they meant instead of "F35 Lightning II" They meant "F35 nonlightning II"
I've never seen a videographer drag something out quite like this. GET TO THE DAMN POINT!!!!!
Been watch you since March and I just realized I'm not subscribed yet
Love the video and I really liked all the facts and stuff like that!
TWA 800 *was* shot down by a US military missile test gone bad.
an MSL would and would NOT cut a planes hull that much, it would be a hole. Not the whole hull.
@@kalbing , Bwahahahahahahahaha. That's the most ridiculous reply to ever be posted on KZhead.
@@kalbing , Bwahahahahahahahaha. That's the most ridiculous reply to ever be posted on KZhead.
@@freedomforever6718 you believe what you believe, and i do my own thing
@@kalbing I'm not saying it was a missile but they're not made to make a "hole". They either use fragmentation, in which cube and bowtie shaped pieces of metal are shot out like an omnidirectional shotgun blast, or continuous-rod warheads. The continuous rods are interesting because they're long rods of metal welded at the tips in a an alternating zig-zag, so when the warhead explodes the rods separate but remain joined at the tips, forming a circular "concertina". When the stretched circle impacts aircraft, it slices them through.
The chief of the RAAF got asked this very question and he confirmed that the F35 is perfectly able to fly in storms and handle lightning strikes. This video is rubbish
Not what you think. There isnt anything on any airbase or airport or navy carrier called 'tarmac'. there is only the following: ramp, taxiway, runway.
I just found this interestin channel and immediately subscribed, but I just have to say how much I hate it when youtube these days forces content creators to make videos unnecesarily long. The first 12 minutes could of been easily been summrised in 2 minutes. I'm not even kidding, but in the middle of the video I got a phone call and when I returned to the video I forgot it was even about F-35's until we FINALLY got to the topic itself. Watching few more videos, but if they have the same pattern it's not worth my time.
But… but… but it’s name… it’s the F-35 Lightning II. Does this mean… that it’s “father” had also couldn’t survive lightning. I’m angy
Him: the systems to prevent fuel exploding hasn't been installed on all airline outside the U.S me, who flies EGYPTAIR : oh shit I'm fucking dead
I live in Raymond Terrace in Australia right next door to RAAF base Williamtown where they fly F35s and have seen them flying in thunderstorms several times .
Well I have to say that I just don’t necessarily believe that they don’t fly during thunderstorms. I live right next to a base where there is an F 35 squadron and they fly during thunderstorms they fly during any bad weather they fly all the time.