Originally published at: US Navy hauls up a stealth fighter jet from the bottom of the South China Sea | Boing Boing
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I wonder if the insurance company will declare the jet a total loss.
Regardless, I think Myth Busters has proven that they’ll never get the smell out.
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Some bondo, a new paint job.
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We had better technology than this back in the 1980s!
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Those mesh uniform tops; were they waiting for the cable repair guy?
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My brother was a nuke tech on the USS Carl Vinson.
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“then pulled the jet 12,400 feet up”
That is pretty impressive!
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My brother built the plastic model for that. Top opened up to see inside and everything. Spent many many hours of childhood playing with that, super cool looks, might have been a flying sub but also made a great looking spacecraft.
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Subtext- there’s some tech on this thing that they really don’t want China knowing about.
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It’ll buff right out.
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So they had at least one twelve-thousand foot cable that can support a stealth jet. (plus the weight of thousands of feet of cable)
I’m sure it’s just one HUGE spool, but that still could be fun to see.
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what’s left after the thing was at 5,400 psi? WOW!
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Stealth plane? But they found it?
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Only an issue if there was air in the inside and water on the outside. Since it sunk, I think we can assume there wasn’t much air in it.
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But then at very last minute, Rose threw it back in.
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Nah, those little water indicators will have turned red. The insurance companies will just say: you dropped in in the water, no insurance for you.
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Do we think that Porsche will send a crane to retrieve its cargo down on the ocean floor near the Azores?
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Are we a step closer to a space elevator?
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No fair! It wasn’t hiding yet!
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