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VTOL landing is more difficult than regular landing. VTOL in general is shit. There's only a handful of VTOL aircraft that have ever been mass produced for a reason.
ps: VTOL F-35s are the marine variant, so this dumbass ejecting is probably a crayola connoisseur.
According to a different time this video posted, it was a prototype owned by Lockheed Martin and not the US military (yet) and this was a test flight. I'm sure US taxpayers still paid for the thing, but yeah, the pilot was probably a former crayon eater working on the private sector.