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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

  • HM King Charles III DG FD@feddit.ukEnglish
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    1 day ago

    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