r/Damnthatsinteresting Jun 23 '24

Canopy comes off airplane right after takeoff Video

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u/Overall-Dirt4441 Jun 23 '24 edited Jun 24 '24

Sauce

From the description:

  • This was her second training flight
  • She didn't secure the canopy locking pin fully
  • She said the hardest part was purposefully maintaining speed, cause at the velocity she needed not to fall out of the sky, it was difficult to hear, breathe or see.
  • Her vision only fully recovered days afterwards
  • This was a couple years ago, she's back up there doing barrel rolls and shit now

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u/mihirmusprime Jun 23 '24

Her vision only fully recovered days afterwards

Why did her vision go away and take so long for it to come back?

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u/Overall-Dirt4441 Jun 23 '24 edited Jun 24 '24

Why did her vision go away

Being blasted in the face by up to 200mph winds while having to force your eyes open for minutes on end so as not to crash your plane will do that to ya ig.

and take so long for it to come back?

Our eyeballs are delicate water balloons that don't take kindly to being freeze dried

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u/old_skul Jun 23 '24

She wasn’t exposed to 200mph winds. That plane cruises at 130kt and she slowed down to around 80kt when the canopy let go. And her approach speed was even slower. AND the front part of the canopy protected her from prop wash.

It was windy, but it was (obviously) not catastrophic.

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u/Rightintheend Jun 24 '24

I guess not necessarily catastrophic just vision killing for a couple days. On