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verdare piefed.blahaj.zone verdare@piefed.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-06-07
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Another certified Martin-Banger
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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](https://bsky.app/profile/adem.bsky.social/post/3mm36onno5k2d)
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neidu3 Moderator neidu3@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2024-11-03
#2 · (edited) Quote Reply

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

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jasoman lemmy.world jasoman@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-03-07
#3 · Quote Reply

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

Then why not all passenger planes have them!!!

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neidu3 Moderator neidu3@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2024-11-03
#4 · Quote Reply

Then why not all passenger planes have them!!!

Because of woke

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GarboDog lemmy.world GarboDog@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-11-12
#5 · Quote Reply

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

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regdog lemmy.world regdog@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-07
#6 · (edited) Quote Reply

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

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HM King Charles III DG FD feddit.uk Flax_vert@feddit.uk
Joined: 2023-06-19
#7 · Quote Reply

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

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JasonDJ lemmy.zip JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2024-01-16
#8 · Quote Reply

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

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ZoteTheMighty lemmy.zip ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-06-27
#9 · Quote Reply

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

Except Goose, RIP Goose.

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FilthyShrooms lemmy.world FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-17
#10 · Quote Reply

Except Goose, RIP Goose.

The ejection worked, it's the human who failed

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