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The the biggest problem and the most interesting aspect of the soviet Yakovlev Yak-38 VTOL naval fighter in action: The tendency to crash during vertical flight, as the engines where prone to ingest their own hot exhaust gas, immediately stalling the aircraft from which recovery was impossible, and the automatic ejection system, which activated the moment the aircraft detected a stall was imminent, as the reaction window for ejection was so short pilots weren’t expected to reliably react in time to it, specially since vertical flight was a very demanding job that required the full focus of the pilot, further reducing the chances of a successful manual ejection.
That’s the stupidest shit.
airborne combat fainting goat
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