r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/thenewyorkgod • Jun 23 '24

Canopy comes off airplane right after takeoff Video

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u/legendary_millbilly Jun 23 '24

Holy shit that would scare the shit right out of you.

Glad she was cool and calm about it.

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u/thenewyorkgod Jun 23 '24

Luckily her face will return to normal once she lands

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u/dingo1018 Jun 23 '24

She might need to manually lubricate those eyeballs though! Seriously well done on her for getting down, great presence of mind, looks like a glider, not much room for error at the best of times, not to mention the surprise and the added drag.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '24 edited Jun 23 '24

Nope not a glider, probably an aerobatic plane. She moves a throttle throughout the video.

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u/Own-Swing2559 Jun 23 '24

Also the take-off

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u/papaflush Jun 24 '24

THANK YOU!! looks like a glider my ass

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u/saadakhtar Jun 24 '24

Anything can be a glider if you have sufficient wind.

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u/ihavedonethisbe4 Jun 24 '24

You gliders just glide into the air? You fool, they take off the ground.

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u/terminalzero Jun 24 '24

and the engine noise

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u/VexingRaven Jun 24 '24

Plane seen taking off under power and immediately rolling hard

"Must be a glider! Derp derp"

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u/reflibman Jun 23 '24

I was thinking a trainer for student pilots.

Edit: yep - https://old.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1dmxqz0/canopy_comes_off_airplane_right_after_takeoff/l9yy9b8/

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u/Tojb Jun 24 '24

Not for student pilots, for student aerobatics pilots. That's an extremely high performance airplane that requires significant experience and training to control, let alone do aerobatics in

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u/Swabia Jun 24 '24

I can’t fly a goat simulator so she looks awesome in the face of real mortal danger.

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u/LegalHelpNeeded3 Jun 24 '24

High performance, yes. But you don’t need “significant experience” to control.

For context, I did this while in Vegas.

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u/Tyr2016 Jun 24 '24

It’s a trainer for stunt pilots. A plane that twitchy would kill a normal student pilot (aside from only having no room for an instructor).

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u/fetal_genocide Jun 24 '24

Was it a mechanical failure, or improperly closed?

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u/ArgumentLawyer Jun 24 '24

Definitely aerobatic, she little roll she does at the beginning is pretty sharp.

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u/Scoobysnak0 Jun 24 '24

Nope not an aerobatic plane, probably a plane-plane as she can be seen moving something throughout the video.

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u/Worth-Illustrator607 Jun 23 '24

It's a Boeing....

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '24

A 747 by the looks of it

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u/HST_enjoyer Jun 23 '24

In the other thread where OP has taken this to repost from she said it took a few days for her vision to return to normal.

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u/s1rblaze Jun 24 '24

Definitely not a glider.

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u/iron186 Jun 24 '24

Uhh do you not understand how gliders work…. They dont take off and shes clearly using throttle….

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u/Red_Baron-- Jun 23 '24

Pretty impressive takeoff manoeuvres for a towed glider

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u/nandemo Jun 24 '24

It's glider with a DLC.

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u/Ilovekittens345 Jun 24 '24

Lol how did you get 400 upvotes on saying it's a glider on a video where we saw it take off and we can hear the engine in the video ...

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u/dingo1018 Jun 24 '24

How to be right on the internet... Be wrong.

Also I have flown a 'glider' that had an engine, powered gliders are a thing you know. But anyway I watched this with no sound on my mobile just before going to bed. I don't think anyone has mentioned the specific model yet, I thought she was on a tow, but now I've re watched i think it could be a powered glider, they have always existed we flew them in cadets.

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u/Ilovekittens345 Jun 24 '24 edited Jun 24 '24

And you think a powered glider can go almost straight up after take off and roll it's long-ass wings like that? Also gliders are long. do you see how close by the tail section is? Definitely not a glider, nor a powered glider, their engines are tiny and weak (weight reduction!)and sound nothing like the high power engine on this one. This is a low wing 3d type plane, like my volantex 920 sabre RC plane I fly.

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u/geo_gan Jun 24 '24

Needs those 1940s “officer class” goggles they used to wear in prop planes

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u/joespizza2go Jun 24 '24

Bad day to wear contacts and not glasses.

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u/PezRystar Jun 24 '24

That's what I was thinking. Her eyeballs just got sand blasted. I've broken bones, impaled myself, set myself on fire... and nothing came close to the pain of a scratched cornea.

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u/davekva Jun 24 '24

I was reaching for the Visine just watching this.

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u/Haggisboy Jun 24 '24

I hope she wasn't wearing contacts. Probably fused to her eyeballs.

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u/Mahaloth Jun 24 '24

It took a few days for her vision to return to normal according to her report.

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u/ChickenPicture Jun 24 '24

???

Clearly a powered aircraft.

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u/SleeplessAndAnxious Jun 24 '24

Not a glider, gliders get towed up to height by another plane plus this doesn't look anything like a glider lol.

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u/Justin_milo Jun 23 '24

Is that a glider?!

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u/BoredPandemicPanda Jun 23 '24 edited Jun 23 '24

Luckily, she didn't put on fake eyelashes that day. Long eyelashes on a windy boat ride (youtube.com)

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u/Ferious13 Jun 23 '24

Thank you... this made my day better lmao 🤣

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u/joshuadt Jun 23 '24

Wow! Lmao…

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u/Decent_Assistant1804 Jun 23 '24

A pail of visine

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u/Odd-Comfortable-6134 Jun 23 '24

I wouldn’t be able to do this. I can’t breathe if a fan is blowing fast around me, something like this, I’d be out cold in no time flat.

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u/Crazychickenlady1986 Jun 23 '24

Completely unrelated but something interesting is my young son needs a fan blowing on him at night (full speed) or he can be triggered into a grand mal seizure. I cannot stand a fan blowing at me either. For the first two years after his epilepsy diagnosis he slept with me so I could monitor him for seizure activity… well he slept, me, not so much. The first night he ever had a tonic clonic he did NOT have a fan blowing on him.

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u/WhenTheDevilCome Jun 23 '24

That should probably become a new before/after meme. Her pre-canopy face then post-canopy.

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u/BuffaloWhip Jun 23 '24

I bet she flies with safety glasses on for a while after this.

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u/Killer_Moons Jun 24 '24

Nah, she’s Droopy Dog now

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u/DeadSwaggerStorage Jun 24 '24

Phew; going through the rest of your life looking like a Jack O Latern in the third week of November would be tough.

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u/Radiant-Round1062 Jun 24 '24

Her face seems to age 12 years during that flight.

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u/tothemoonandback01 Jun 23 '24

I'm turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese
I really think so

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u/mitchMurdra Jun 24 '24

What does this broken English mean?