A US Air Force F-35 pilot spent 50 minutes on an airborne conference call with Lockheed Martin engineers trying to solve a problem with his fighter jet before he ejected and the plane plunged to the ground in Alaska earlier this year, an accident report released this week says.
“An inspection of the aircraft’s wreckage found that about one-third of the fluid in the hydraulic systems in both the nose and right main landing gears was water, when there should have been none.”
For all the tech in these planes you would expect some kind of 0.50 cent sensor somewhere in there to let you know you have hydraulic fluid that looks like the coolant in an old Subaru with a failed head gasket.
“An inspection of the aircraft’s wreckage found that about one-third of the fluid in the hydraulic systems in both the nose and right main landing gears was water, when there should have been none.”
For all the tech in these planes you would expect some kind of 0.50 cent sensor somewhere in there to let you know you have hydraulic fluid that looks like the coolant in an old Subaru with a failed head gasket.