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[Jbb]

According to an Air Force briefing, the controls on an F-22A at Langley Air Force Base showed that the aircraft's canopy wasn't locking. After several attempts at opening and closing the canopy, on the final try it locked and jammed--trapping the pilot inside. According to the briefing, the 27th Aircraft Maintenance Unit then "consulted Lockheed Martin and the F-22A System Program Office to determine alternative methods to open the canopy and extract the pilot." The mission was accomplished approximately five hours later. While the "alternative method" ultimately used was fairly cheap, the resulting damage wasn't - the cost to replace the canopy is $182,205
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[Tom Brown]

It's nice to see they used tape to keep the cut from chipping too bad. :D

[LAFD]

wonder if it would have been cheaper to just hit the ejection button.

[Liberator TJ1984]

This ain't Bush screwing around again with something he knows nothing about is it ??? :p
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[1stepcloser]

http://www.hotboatpics.com/pics/data/500/181f22cockpitfailure6.jpg
Sheepskins.... sweet.

[spectratoad]

Now they can just superglue it back into place couldn't they? :cry:

[Cheap Thrills]

That $182,000 is a Govt. price just like the $2,000.00 toilet seat and the $500.00 hammer . give it a year and they could pick one up on Ebay for $5.00
C.T. :wink:

[Tom Brown]

...give it a year and they could pick one up on Ebay for $5.00
... plus $400 shipping.

[JB in so cal]

That $182,000 is a Govt. price just like the $2,000.00 toilet seat and the $500.00 hammer . give it a year and they could pick one up on Ebay for $5.00
C.T. :wink:
$182,000 is what DCB charges for 'em, too!

[Cheap Thrills]

... plus $400 shipping.
Aint that the truth :D
$182,000 is what DCB charges for 'em, too!
Yeah but the DCB owners can afford it :p
C.T. :wink:

[SmokinLowriderSS]

wonder if it would have been cheaper to just hit the ejection button.
Funny thought :rollside: ,,, but no. :cry:
The canopy release handle would STILL have been worse after the detonating cord burned thru the latches and parts of the structure, and the mess from the little rockets to strip it off. That and the likelihood of damage to the back of the plane from the quite-a-few-hundred-pound canopy crashing into the plane's spine/tail area.
If he'd actually "punched out", the mortar to launch the seat up is OK, but the 5,000 pound rocket motor that "flies" the seat burns out everythign in the cockpit. Basically unsalvagable after that, except as spare parts for engines, radar, & flight controll surfaces. Hope he wasn't in a hangar (it's happened to a maint troop (F-4 Phantom II) right thru the roof, well the seat went thru). :yuk:
I used to be a Maint troop. :) AFSC43151 - F-4/F-16/B-1

[Sleek-Jet]

Real men fly open cockpit airplanes anyways....
Just get those fighter jockies a good set of goggles and they will be good to go. :D

[DaveA]

Real men fly open cockpit airplanes anyways....
Just get those fighter jockies a good set of goggles and they will be good to go. :D
I couldn't agree more...care to take a trip around th' patch?
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[Rexone]

Have the money was probably for the spacesuits required to run the sawzall.

[LUVNLIFE]

Should be a warranty issue :rolleyes: :rollside:

[OCMerrill]

I am thinking a DCB canopy in place of that crappy "Cheapest bidder" original one also. :p

[OCMerrill]

And the Gas Powered Sawzall...putting that on my list of gotta havs.
Us poor folk use a generator, extension cords, and a $200 one. I also like the specal suits to protect them from that space age polymer that could kill on contact.