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F-117A after a mishap as the aircraft landed at Holloman AFB, New Mexico. 1997. (lemmy.world)

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[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 13 points 4 months ago

I remember watching these taking off and landing in the early 90s and it convinced me that I could never believe someone who tells me that they saw an alien UFO. Because these move in such bizarre ways. They were UFOS and I knew exactly what I was watching

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Oooof. How many millions did that cost....?

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[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world [S] 17 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Not sure. The airframe was repaired and flying again by 1998. The cost to produce a brand new F-117 was about $108 million, so the repair of this one was probably "only" a few million.

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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Being nothing but flat panels and hard angles probably helped.

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[–] silver@das-eck.haus 11 points 4 months ago (1 child)

At least 3 rolls of speed tape

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[–] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 4 months ago

To show you the strength of Flex Tape, I sawed this 100 million dollar plane in half!

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[–] Codpiece@feddit.uk 7 points 4 months ago

Oi mate, you can’t park that here.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 3 points 4 months ago

Oopsie!

[–] humble_boatsman@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

Is that.... Darth maul¿ trying to claw back in the cockpit?

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[–] SenatorCollins@aussie.zone 9 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Well, there are a lot of these jets going around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don’t want people thinking that stealth fighters aren’t safe.

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[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world [S] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Looks like Big Stealth Aircraft just got to someone else.

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[–] SenatorCollins@aussie.zone 1 point 4 months ago

Absolutely ludicrous. These are very very strong planes.

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[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Well, was this stealth fighter safe?

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[–] SenatorCollins@aussie.zone 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Well, I was thinking more about the other ones.

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[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

The fronts not supposed to do that. Just to be clear.

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[–] SenatorCollins@aussie.zone 2 points 4 months ago

Well, obviously not.

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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

Except when they run into ski gondola cables and kill people.

20 people killed, pilots destroyed evidence, not guilty of negligent homicide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Cavalese_cable_car_crash?wprov=sfla1

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[–] SenatorCollins@aussie.zone 1 point 4 months ago

I’m not saying it wasn’t safe. It’s just perhaps not quite as safe as some of the other ones.

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[–] Dzheyk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

Woopsie poopsie

[–] Rakonat@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago

Confirmation that the ground is anti stealth. Russian war planners are celebrating.

[–] Fourth@mander.xyz 1 point 4 months ago (3 children)

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[–] blarg_dunsen@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The entire left half of this image really unsettles me, and the right half looks normal and safe.

Is this AI or some sort of weird censorship or just bad lighting / camera artefacts?

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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 point 4 months ago

The shadow angles of the aircraft do not match the people.

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[–] Fourth@mander.xyz 1 point 4 months ago

Looks like Star Trek baddies.

Maybe it's highly zoomed in and that's led to artifacting.

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[–] d00ery@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

AI slop?

The faces of the people on the left look rather odd, could be deliberate blurring but it looks off to me.

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[–] Harvey656@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

The image might be but the crash its referring to is quite real apparently! http://www.f-117a.com/793.html

Also why does the F 117 have its own website? This was quite the little rabbit hole.

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[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 4 points 4 months ago

It makes an interesting sci-fi novel book cover:

Could well be an "upscaled" image from grainy source material (pre or post "AI" upscaling).

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[–] Codpiece@feddit.uk [S] 5 points 4 months ago

Not sure. It’s got the look of an old image that’s been saved too many times and over sharpened.

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[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 1 point 4 months ago

Oh look, a penny.

[–] MrPoletki@feddit.uk 1 point 4 months ago

Batman is not impressed.