This looks like one of the tests, long ago, from when they were selecting the canopy material. One was too flexible - probably this one. Another was perfectly stiff - but just porous enough that the bird turned into chicken soup inside the cockpit, The winner was a little bit flexible, buy not so much that it would damage the HUD or impact the pilot. The F-16 was the first to have a canopy that was a single piece throughout the pilot's field of view - no obstructions at all.
@Enanon Oh no.....pilots are injured or killed by bird strikes. When I was in the Air Force a T-38 was doing touch n gos at our airbase. During one approach they hit a bird right in the canopy. The bird went through the front windshield and THROUGH the instrument panel, then passed by the front seater, hitting him and injuring him, then went THROUGH the blast shield between the front and rear cockpits and injured the rear seater. Northrop had to do the repairs. Took months.
JM: That's what we said back then. Most of us thought, "Oh, but the pilots had their oxygen masks and blast shields down....which is AF regs during landing. But it didn't matter, they were both injured anyway...but obviously made the landing in spite of their injuries.
when the pilot closes the canopy he checks for atleast a fists width distance between their helmet and canopy. its wierd because the transparencies are actually pretty hard yet flexible!
I read at another movie that they used to (more than 12 years ago, maybe long before) try engine bird strike tests with some gelatinous thing...it could be this uses that methodology, right?
No, they use real, dead birds, plucked and refrigerated, or frozen, depending on the test. The carcass is launched from an air cannon at the test object at a speed equivalent to the airspeed the plane would have in flight.
This looks like one of the tests, long ago, from when they were selecting the canopy material. One was too flexible - probably this one. Another was perfectly stiff - but just porous enough that the bird turned into chicken soup inside the cockpit, The winner was a little bit flexible, buy not so much that it would damage the HUD or impact the pilot. The F-16 was the first to have a canopy that was a single piece throughout the pilot's field of view - no obstructions at all.
billrumbley 6 months ago
That's a flexible cockpit!
hi5lo2 4 years ago
what HUD? lol...
maybe the pilot get hurt...
luisrdm1 4 years ago
This is a static test of a canopy on a nonflying test frame. There is no pilot inside.
upajos 4 years ago
Great video! How did you get it?
Wow! Canopy seems to be ok, but HUD has been smashed into pieces... :( Wouldn't the pilot get hurt in real-life?!
lukaszpoznan 4 years ago
not at all. he's (or she's) wearing the flight suis, gloves, helmet... anyway you will have to come back for sure
Enanon 4 years ago
@Enanon Oh no.....pilots are injured or killed by bird strikes. When I was in the Air Force a T-38 was doing touch n gos at our airbase. During one approach they hit a bird right in the canopy. The bird went through the front windshield and THROUGH the instrument panel, then passed by the front seater, hitting him and injuring him, then went THROUGH the blast shield between the front and rear cockpits and injured the rear seater. Northrop had to do the repairs. Took months.
JetMechMA 1 year ago
@JetMechMA was that a bird or a phoenix!?
miguelsaez340 1 year ago
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@miguelsaez340: was that a bird or a phoenix!?
JM: That's what we said back then. Most of us thought, "Oh, but the pilots had their oxygen masks and blast shields down....which is AF regs during landing. But it didn't matter, they were both injured anyway...but obviously made the landing in spite of their injuries.
JetMechMA 1 year ago
when the pilot closes the canopy he checks for atleast a fists width distance between their helmet and canopy. its wierd because the transparencies are actually pretty hard yet flexible!
crf450motoxracer1021 2 years ago
or a very large meatball or dirt clod or whatever.
Thanks for the technical suppport Enanon.
UbuntoO 4 years ago
That's not a bird and it looks like a rock.
A little explaination here would have been helpful.
UbuntoO 4 years ago
of course they don't use a real bird. its just a dead chicken, 3kg of weight, shooted from short distance.
Enanon 4 years ago
I read at another movie that they used to (more than 12 years ago, maybe long before) try engine bird strike tests with some gelatinous thing...it could be this uses that methodology, right?
EdOscuro 4 years ago
No, they use real, dead birds, plucked and refrigerated, or frozen, depending on the test. The carcass is launched from an air cannon at the test object at a speed equivalent to the airspeed the plane would have in flight.
upajos 4 years ago
thanks for the update upajos ^^
Enanon 4 years ago
@Enanon Why is it blue!
GerbilEssences 1 year ago
Just to clear some things up, this is not why they have height limits for pilots, lol.
Hexify 4 years ago
WOW
rbowden123 4 years ago