At 02:38 PM 6/2/98 -0500, you wrote:
>dont forget the gas leaking out allover and maybe puddling in the canopy.
>Battery hanging by the cables, etc...The USAF used to keep a big canopy
>breakout tool in T-37s to assist in just such an emergency. There was a guy
>a few years back flipped over in shallow water....
A bad-ass knife is going to definitely be in my toolkit. I remember
hearing some Navy pilots talking about carving their way out of canopies
years ago. We also had some conversations here recently about breakaway
fuselage panels and such, but I don't know if anyone has actually
implemented them.
I think a little plastique permanently embedded in the fuselage walls in
the form of a rectangle between the seatback, the longerons, and the seat
bottom, some pryotechnic devices and well, hopefully there ISNT any fuel
puddling in the canopy!!! The low-tech way would be to use some of that
string, knotted the way they do to hold bags of dog-food shut.......
I can't wait to buy one of those little yellow triangles that says "RESCUE".
Dave
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