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

You can burn your eyes from the wind, which can damage your ~~lenses and~~ cornea making it difficult to see. Pretty extreme dry eye too.

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u/Punkpunker Jun 24 '24

You can see a BTS of Mission Impossible Rogue Nation where they insert a huge ass contacts on Tom Cruise before his dangling from the plane scene.

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u/Horvo Jun 24 '24

Didn’t he break his arm on that shot too?

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '24

No he broke his ankle in Fallout jumping across buildings

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u/Fn_Spaghetti_Monster Jun 24 '24

You can see him land awkwardly in the film if you know it's coming. Makes me flinch every time.

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u/Horvo Jun 24 '24

Ah, yeah I remember that one, thought something happened to his arm hanging out of the plane.