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Offline CMC Airboss

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F-22 Pilot trapped for 5 hours
« on: April 25, 2006, 11:59:39 PM »
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Raptor canopy stuck in down and locked position sawn open by fire crew after 5hours

A fire crew had to cut open the canopy of a US Air Force Lockheed Martin F-22A Raptor fighter with chainsaws on 10 April to free the pilot, who had been trapped inside for 5h.


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Offline Hangtime

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« Reply #1 on: April 26, 2006, 12:03:15 AM »
linky no workie,

but... lol... id'a thought that by now, lookheed would have run into this scenario before...
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« Reply #2 on: April 26, 2006, 12:11:30 AM »
All fixed
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Offline Wolfala

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« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2006, 12:16:20 AM »
Know what is slightly amusing about this - is because 2 weeks ago the same thing happened to me, except in a 2 seat Grumman T-Cat. The lock was old, and you wouldn't tell if the damn thing was open or closed b/c it was done by key. So while in the flight, the vibration ended up moving the tumbler back into position - and upon landing, we got a nice surprise. Well, not really a nice surprise. We could barely slide the canopy open enough to tell the line guy somehow we'd been forest gumped into locking ourselves inside with no way of escape. SO after about 45 minutes of the guy trying to get the lock to engage, it slid back.

Life is good.

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Offline DiabloTX

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« Reply #4 on: April 26, 2006, 12:18:43 AM »
Hope the USAF bought an extended warranty...
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Offline DREDIOCK

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« Reply #5 on: April 26, 2006, 12:21:23 AM »
5 hours Wow!

Seems to me simply pulling the ejection lever would have gotten him out alot faster :D
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Offline B@tfinkV

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« Reply #6 on: April 26, 2006, 12:43:57 AM »
or if it malfuntioned and the canopy didnt break the chair would twist up 90 degrees and continue burning the jets just long enough to squash the life out of the pilot against the top of the glass.

do they make the canopies of super ACME bullet proof stuff anyhow?
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Offline Debonair

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« Reply #7 on: April 26, 2006, 12:46:44 AM »
at those speeds, i'd have to bet the canopies are made of something uber...i was trapped in a Bonanza for 45min once, but it had curtains & we had sandwiches
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Offline VOR

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« Reply #8 on: April 26, 2006, 12:48:57 AM »
I guess it's a good thing his shoes weren't on fire. Think there will be a factory recall? :D
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« Reply #9 on: April 26, 2006, 01:07:33 AM »
I wonder if any of that time is loggable...
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Offline LLv34 Jarsci

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« Reply #10 on: April 26, 2006, 01:33:43 AM »
You should be able to jettison the canopy only without igniting ejection seat. At least all plane I have worked with have canopy jettison switch /lever which activates canopy jettisoning from ejection sequence -->blows it off.
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Offline Furball

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« Reply #11 on: April 26, 2006, 02:02:29 AM »
:lol

This would never happen to a Eurofighter Typhoon or Rafale or Sukhoi.  Poor American worksmanship and poor rushed design is to blame i think... Cheap Raptors.

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Offline Debonair

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« Reply #12 on: April 26, 2006, 02:29:10 AM »
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I wonder if any of that time is loggable...


i hope he had his foggles
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Offline indy007

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« Reply #13 on: April 26, 2006, 08:12:22 AM »
The canopy has to have a radar absorbent coating. If it wasn't, the pilots head would have a radar signature a few hundred times larger than the aircraft. They learned that one building the F-117.
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« Reply #14 on: April 26, 2006, 08:37:44 AM »
Made in Taiwan.

"American components, Russian components...all made in Taiwan!"
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