Opening the Canopy of the F-117A Nighthawk

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@thesaneparty4079 5 месяцев назад

You're a life saver- I bought one on ebay and couldn't figure out how to get the hatch open.

@jensen6735 7 месяцев назад

F-117A and a F-91W. Perfect match!

@murilovsilva Год назад

Imagine the pilot in the cockpit, after an emergency landing with the engines on fire, patiently waiting for ground crew to give the thingy those 300 twists

@shahzadaslam384 11 месяцев назад

i guess he can also eject if thing get too bad but that might not be good experience but atleast it will save his life

@vladpootin5973 6 месяцев назад

😁 I get your humor, but on the offchance that something akin to that would ever happen, there were safety mechanisms in place to quickly open that canopy.

@williamgates4399 5 месяцев назад

Pilot can jettison the canopy from inside.

@BogeyTheBear 3 месяца назад

Ever see the word 'Rescue' in an arrow painted on the side of a military jet? It points to the doohickey that pops the canopy off. System is powered by gunpowder, so you have only one shot at it (literally).

@Surestick88 Год назад

300 "muscle cranks" or one cordless drill?

@bluerider0988 Год назад

That's what I was thinking. There must be a reason they didn't use one.

@GridPowerLLC Год назад

Use drill machine maybe damage the gear ⚙️

@kethtemplar8989 Год назад

Its probally too heavy for one. Cordless drills dont tend to have alot of guts.

@ragnarok5056 Год назад

Hahahaha i was thinking the same thing

@szkworc2008 Год назад

@@kethtemplar8989 cheap market stuff maybe.

@deansnipah1392 Год назад

I wouldve just attached a drill to an extension with a socket at the end.

@aviationist1018 Год назад

Sounds like a good idea but me being me i wouldn’t wanna damage the aircraft by having the drill thing accidentally come off and hit the areas around it

@deansnipah1392 Год назад

@@aviationist1018 nah it wouldnt happen unless you are 1000% mechanically deficient lol You have a greater chance of your drill slipping removing screws

@aviationist1018 Год назад

@@deansnipah1392 true that true that

@Yeager123123 Год назад

This seems incredible inefficient and unnecessary

@MaxIsStrange1 11 месяцев назад

@@Yeager123123That might be because it’s a manual backup to the automatic system activated by the switch shown in the video at 0:16. Under normal, non-museum conditions you’d flip that switch and the canopy would open automatically.

@calebsilver6333 18 дней назад

Ground crew better have that milwuakee m18 when it’s actually go time

@jumpingjeffflash9946 Месяц назад

cranking open an F-16 canopy is a p.i.t.a. too but you only need to crank it up just enough to reach in and turn on the battery switch (once you have a power unit hooked up) then electrically raise it.

@Smartass-pl3nx 3 месяца назад

An employee let me go back in the work area to let me see this plane being restored. I saw the plane parts disassembled. It was very cool.

@einfachhonig6284 Год назад

now my question is cant you just hook it up to ground power so you dont have to do it by hand?

@TonymanCS 5 месяцев назад

The plane has a servomotor to open/close the canopy but the museum plane is not hooked on any ground power sources so they have to open it manually.

@TriAmpHiFi 5 месяцев назад

@@TonymanCS . So silly. just put the crank fitting on the end of a cordless drill.

@dragonraopen2604 5 месяцев назад

I still have a small peace in my box 😅 from 99

@vladpootin5973 6 месяцев назад

This magnificent machine exudes a mystike and is eerie, in terms of 🇺🇸 tech it is considered obsolete, but for the rest of the world it still looks like something from the distant future.

@realbobpickles1484 Год назад

cool

@isodoublet 6 месяцев назад

Did they replace the coating for display? It looks different.

@strf90105 9 месяцев назад

Is it really so heavy that it has to be done with a breaker bar and not any other tool, say speed handle?

@timw483 5 месяцев назад

We used Speed handles all the time to open them if there was no battery power. They wouldn't give us power tools on the flightline - too expensive and there would be too many stripped screws