Another certified Martin-Banger

::: spoiler Alt Text A photo of a fighter pilot ejecting from an F-16, with several other photos arranged in a loose collage. The caption “Yep, another certified Martin-Banger” is overlaid in bold, Impact font.

There are two pictures of downed fighters, one with an explosion in the background, and one with a fighter pilot giving a thumbs up to camera from the cockpit. Above them is the Martin-Baker logo, along with the following text:

9,835,098,129 crashed F-16s
1,823,058,520 crashed F-18s
     9,823,589 crashed F-35s
         0 failed ejections

Beneath the ejecting pilot in the base image is the sub-caption,

seriously we’re losing like two jets a week at this point what’s going on does anyone know ::: Image sourced from this Bluesky post

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9 Comments

regdog@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 114d

BORN TO EJECT
WAR IS A BUSINESS
LAUNCH EM ALL 1989
I AM ROCKET SEAT
410,757,864,530 SAVED PILOTS

neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 33 pts · 114d (3 replies)

Ejection seats are a conspiracy by Big Fly to make you Fly more

jasoman@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 114d (1 reply)

Then why not all passenger planes have them!!!

neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 114d

Because of woke

JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 114d

GarboDog@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 114d (2 replies)

Hey you know what not a single election failed, good job

ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 114d (1 reply)

Except Goose, RIP Goose.

FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 114d

The ejection worked, it's the human who failed

Flax_vert@feddit.uk · 10 pts · 114d

Once I was in an aviation museum and we were told that we weren't allowed in some of the aircraft cockpits. The reasoning given was because while the aeroplanes are no-longer functional, the same couldn't be said about the ejection seat