Start with the F-35 doing the "belly dance" in South Korea
F-35 Lightning jet fighter.
This Lockheed Martin masterpiece is one of the most advanced fighters currently in the United States and is said to form a powerful combination with the F-22 Raptor to lock in the air superiority of the U.S. military. The aircraft is not only used by the U.S. military, but also exported to the United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea and other relatively iron allies. Its performance is quite excellent, known as stealth, can get on the ship, can fight in the air, can attack the ground, but to say that the belly dance, this action seems to be a little more difficult.
Besides, the F-35 weighs 13 tons (empty weight, if you count the maximum take-off weight of up to 31 tons), even if this guy can jump, is this body shape anyone looking?
However, according to a report by the Chosun Ilbo on January 5, 2022, a state-of-the-art F-35A fighter of the South Korean Air Force malfunctioned during training at The Seosan base in Chungcheongnam-do and made a successful belly landing. According to reports, the pilot of the plane was safe and sound, and the aircraft's fuselage was only slightly injured. At present, the South Korean side is working with technical personnel of Lockheed Martin in the United States to analyze the causes of the F-35 failure.
Belly landing is generally an emergency response method in which the fuselage is directly grounded with the fuselage in the case that the aircraft cannot land normally due to landing gear failure, and the friction between the belly and the ground is used to achieve deceleration and forced landing.
This landing method can easily cause serious consequences such as fuselage rupture leading to crashes, even if the landing is successful, it is easy to cause fires due to friction static electricity and other reasons to cause secondary injuries, for aircraft, this is a very dangerous "belly dance".
Interestingly, the Chosun Ilbo article is as headlined as the "belly dance" used by Lao Sa - "The latest stealth fighter worth 100 billion is forced to land due to a failed landing gear."
100 billion in an airplane?! Will the F-35 be that expensive? In other places, it is not easy to say, in South Korea, there is really this price! South Korea signed a contract to purchase 40 F-35A aircraft in 2014 with Lockheed Martin and began deliveries in 2019. The total order cost $6.4 billion, and it is no problem to say that a single aircraft is equivalent to 100 billion won.
The South Korean won may seem a bit low, but even then the F-35 is still too expensive.
To date, the South Korean Air Force is equipped with 30 F-35A fighter jets — which South Korea is actually "semi-owned" and, although ownership belongs to the South Korean Air Force, has refused to inspect these aircraft "without reservation" for "safety reasons" such as the leakage of the latest stealth technology.
How does this have the meaning of the Qing Dynasty's Aspen Fleet? The "president of the fleet", Li Thai, also stipulated that the warships purchased by the Qing Dynasty were not allowed to enter.
I was so arrogant that I sold the fleet in a fit of rage, but South Korea did not dare to do so. As the existing F-4 and F-5 fighter jets are all antiques of the Vietnam War to continue to replace, in 2020 they decided to double the number of such aircraft purchased, that is, to buy 20 F-35B STOL fighters and 20 F-35A fighters to maintain air superiority in the confrontation with the North.
In this F-35 forced landing, the Performance of south Korean pilots is quite remarkable. It should be known that this is also the first time that the F-35 fighter jet exported by the United States to its allies has successfully forced a landing in this dangerous way. At the end of last year, an American F-35 fighter on a British aircraft carrier had just fallen into the water during takeoff and had not yet been salvaged.
This time the accident in South Korea, you can see a lot of details from the news. The F-35A fighter, which belongs to the 20th Flight Regiment of the Korean Air Force, failed during a training flight when all three landing gear control systems of the aircraft failed and could not land properly. At the critical moment, the pilot chose to make a forced landing rather than abandon the plane and parachute.
It is estimated that I also feel that this hundred billion things are equivalent to two hundred pieces per person on the heads of South Korean citizens, and it is too wasteful to throw them directly.
As a former airport worker, if you want to comment on Lao Sa, the performance in the air and on the ground was good at that time.
The air pilot did not panic, but according to the routine of forced landing, he first chose to release oil and empty the gas tank of the aircraft, which could avoid the martyrdom of the aircraft when it landed. Then he tried to keep the aircraft as fast as possible, neither stalling (falling without falling), nor too fast (that would shovel into the runway), trying to raise the nose and touch the runway with the belly.
Ground personnel sprayed a large amount of fire foam on the runway during the pilot's oil release to reduce the probability of an aircraft catching fire.
These are also the routine actions of the forced landing, but it is also very good to be able to complete the routine actions in an emergency, so the performance of the Korean pilots this time is eye-catching.
The dude, however, was more fortunate — he flew an F-35A fighter jet than the other series of the model. The F-35 is an advanced aircraft, but its vertical/STOL models, such as the British F-35B, have a strange movement when preparing to land - it will raise a flag-like thing on its back.
This is certainly not a flag lookout.
It was designed to get more lift, it had a vertical lift fan engine behind the cockpit, and when the fairing plate was turned on, it became like this.
Therefore, it is to parachute, but also one more program than others - first use the explosive bolt to blow up the "flag" behind, and then the driver jumps, otherwise most of the drivers out of the cabin will be cut off by this thing. And generally to parachute is the plane has not been very obedient, if the bolt can not be detonated according to the procedure, or detonation later than the catapult parachute, the result is still a waist chop.
If you use this type of aircraft, it is estimated that the pilot will directly parachute and escape. Rao is a Korean man who fearlessly cuts his fingers, and the F-35's ejection seat can parachute at zero altitude, and the risk of trying to land on the belly is too great - once the "flag" is put up, it is too late to regret it. In other words, the pilot did not have such a felony as cheating in the field, so why was he tortured by such a waist?
Fortunately, the F-35A is not a vertical/STOL model, and it does not have that lift fan on the back, so the psychological impact on the pilot is a little smaller. At the same time, it is also a medium-winged fighter, which is advantageous for a forced landing.
This means that its wings are located in the middle of the fuselage, as seen from a longitudinal section.
Modern aircraft wings generally have three kinds of upper monoplanes, medium monoplanes and lower monoplanes (the wings are usually used by special aircraft such as sea tourist aircraft and agricultural aircraft), if you need to dance the "belly dance" in case of emergency, the upper and middle monoplanes usually dance better, because as long as there is a slight imbalance between the left and right when the lower monoplane lands, one side of the wing tip will touch the ground first, resulting in the tragic consequences of the aircraft rolling or even disintegrating. The "Trident" that forcibly landed in Öndur Khan was a disembarked monoplane, and the failure of the forced landing had a lot to do with its shape.
It should be said that it is this series of favorable conditions that has enabled the South Korean pilot to successfully land the F-35 fighter and also saved 100 billion losses for the South Korean people.
No, it may not reach 100 billion, although the F-35A is said to have not been too damaged in appearance after landing, but the belly landing will definitely cause considerable damage to its fuselage. Considering the nearly pathological safety protection of the F-35 in the united States in terms of technology, it is unlikely that the South Korean manufacturers will repair it, and the cost of transporting this big guy who can't fly back to the United States for repair is probably not new.
Anyway, after buying such a batch of ancestors, the ROK Air Force is sure to lose money.
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