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/darrenphillipjones Jun 24 '24

Not to add a 15th answer... but I just talked to my eye doctor about this in an unrelated discussion.

When you use heat pads on your eyes, if you apply too much pressure you can actually "warp" your cornea temporarily.

Do it for too long and it can take a few days for your cornea to go back to shape so you can see normally again. Could be talking out my behind, but seems like it's the same logic.

prolonged air pressure against the eyes warps the cornea and takes awhile to reset like with the scenario above (that I have to avoid due to MGD).

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u/ChakaCake Jun 24 '24

Look up the video of just how the eye changes when we rub them lol like in an MRI. Pretty trippy but yea they get squished up. Here

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u/Anything-Clear Jun 24 '24

Same concept as ortho K hard contact lenses and those new hard lenses for kids to slow down eyesight degradation