Reply to post: Re: Handling the G's

Latest F-35 bang seat* mods will stop them breaking pilots' necks, beams US

werdsmith Silver badge

Re: Handling the G's

the pilot is actually more valuable in real terms than the plane

I think a lot of the F4 pilots that were rinsed by Mig-17 and 21 opposition in Vietnam spent the rest of the war in the Hanoi Hilton anyway.

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