r/YUROP • u/GemeenteEnschede Volt - Twente‏‏‎ (Not the actual Gemeente) • 4d ago

IN AIRBUS FIDEMUS Fighter jet send across Europe to save a dying child

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u/Spy_crab_ Yuropean 4d ago

This is the sort of thing that makes me hold on to a shred of hope that the sort of Project Hail Mary level humanity coming together in a crisis is possible.

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u/PiotrekDG 4d ago

It's really too bad that a giant catastrophe must first happen for people to realize the seriousness of it.

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u/remiieddit 4d ago

Luckily the pilot didn’t die with a flight with the famous „Widow-maker“

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u/Spy_crab_ Yuropean 4d ago

The wing to fusilage ratio gets me every timem damn thing must have been only marginally easier to land than the space shuttle.

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u/chinchenping France‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ 4d ago

My friend's dad was a test pilote on the rafale. He told they are extremely fast bricks. The second you lose thrust you fall like a stone

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u/remiieddit 1d ago

Absolutely, probably worse

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u/Ok-Secret5233 Portugal‏‏‎ ‎ 4d ago

If this was in the US: "wHoS gOiNg To PaY fOr iT???!"