Air Race pilot's canopy opens during flight

[SenorSpode]

He had to toss a ciggy butt...

[Mirada84]

hmmmm, i think there is a draft......

[sashman3988]

AH, It's fucking warm in here!

[torngr4a]

worlds fastest convertible

[trimbot6]

Why didn't he just snap roll to the right? LOL

[thechemartin]

no damage dont worry its gonna be fine.

[SlamDuncDrummer]

The slip must have created a low pressure over the canopy sucking it open from the upwind side.

[emp29]

I had my door pop open in a cessna 152 during take-off. Nothing happened and was uneventful especially compared to this one. :) I tried shutting during the door on the downwind and couldn't cause it was really hard to push the door open. But you gotta love how the plane reacted to "control inputs" on the door.

[DerPilotMann]

@emp29 Had that happen to me in a 172 out of KDPA. It was my first time flying in that area and I was going to take a tour of downtown with a local CFI. Door popped open on takeoff, stayed in the pattern, full stop, shut it, same things happens on take off again! She asked if I wanted to just not take the tour, but I said an unlatched door wouldn't keep me from taking that tour! You really cannot tell except it is a little louder than usual in the cabin.

[RichardEllisxyz]

@Torn24328 And I suppose your an A&P Mechanic??? Duh... Know what A&P means........If you don´t nor have not been by ones side as he works......don´t be talkin shit boy!

[RichardEllisxyz]

@Torn24328 And I suppose your an A&P Mechanic??? Duh... Know what A&P means........If you don´t nor have not been byones side as he works......don´t be talkin shit boy!

[mmichaeldonavon]

Looks like, near the end of the video, he said a bad word - looked very much like: "F...!

[WizzleThump]

0:52 "Fuck"

[semihhotmailde]

Red Bull Cabro

[FLYJB]

Notice the F-Bomb right around 0:50

[AntiStalinist]

"Obviously with the new race format and all your pretty rushed and I saw the cessna at the last second and I was just taking off my seat belts so I just hit the brakes, err I mean canopy. Um buh uh, what was the question?"

[RichardEllisxyz]

"The canopy unlocked & opened".........by itself? Yeah right! How often has your car door "unlocked & opened" by itself.........!! This event should be investigated up one side & down the other. Canopies don't just "open". There is a major mechanical malfunction which requires a redesign of the mechanism...or the pilot just plain forgot to secure the canopy...............I vote for option two. Also requiring a noted reprimand on his License.

[ColdfireTrilogy]

@RichardEllisxyz <--- he mad

[Tom24328]

@RichardEllisxyz

You're an idiot

[Tom24328]

@RichardEllisxyz

You're an idiot.....no clue about what you're talking about

[verdemanthe1]

I am the greatest pilot in the world,I will win the redbull air race!

[kinsley2108]

Rule one in an emergency, FLY THE PLANE. Awesome job.

[extralars123]

use ductape it helps :P

[genegene002]

Yikes! That would suck to get a bird in your eye! :(

[derekeves1]

I saw him word funk .... I would have too!

[aval1998]

done with PLANES! lets use gliders! :-D

[yonieter]

@aval1998

well isn't a glider a plane too?:P at least glider canopies won't open that fast during flight....

[c1rca101]

looks like the dude from csi, even the way he puts his glasses on lol

[flipperwhipper]

Isnt this the same guy who prop striked after slamming on the brakes, claiming he was rushed in the new format?

[myrandomspaces]

EPIC AC!!

[KylerHayes]

I wonder if he got any bugs??? I bet that taste good!

[marick626]

Talk about a free face lift. lol.

[shortliner1425]

damn and he put that thing on the ground!nice job!

[BPauxNavy]

Red Bull made me shit so bad I got hemoroids.  Fuck this guy and his little airplane too.

[blakeblake321]

Your cool!

[Flumphinator]

@BPauxNavy

That's what you get for drinking 3 a day for a week.

[drummer987]

lay off the gay anal sex then

[SenorSpode]

Good save! A separating canopy can possibly hit the empennage and result in either instability or a loss of pitch and/or yaw control, with likely fatal results. Cool flying.

[chestateegold]

why are they trying to make news of this? this isnt a very big deal....

[depeche88]

lol, he could finally close his canopy once landed

[happymana]

Who cares if the plane gets fucked, you don't wanna get air in your bloodstream.

[frambesbuckeye]

@happymana

LOL WTF are you talking about?

[happymana]

@frambesbuckeye I'm talkin about wind compressed air in the blood, exposed to fast wind.. Why you think they have canopies?? For decoration

[frambesbuckeye]

@happymana

It has nothing to do with their blood. It has to do with the fact that they are going >300 mph and need to see. Being exposed to air at that speed is neckbreaking.

[hubeda]

@frambesbuckeye not in a plane that small, but i agree with the reason for the canopy.

[frambesbuckeye]

Size doesn't matter

[rayven2012]

This guy continues to make stupid mistakes. Pre-takeoff checklist close and lock the latch which he obviously didn't do.

Guys an idiot.

[tsiehtath]

crazy windy ! dont forget the prop right in front of him quartering speed when full power and accelerating lolz

[Karletto555]

0:52 "FU*K"

[diderr01]

Airplane convertible

[Weltbevoelkerung]

might be a bit windy...

[falcon1163]

Poor Kirby...canopy pops open in flight, then a taxiing nose over...maybe he ought to reconsider air racing and take up...knitting!!!

[Tampaslice]

22 yrs of flying and I still can't figure out why this sport exists. Chuck Yeager said air racing was a waste of good airspace. Have to agree with Chuck!

[jgpwlcs36]

how is it a waste? this sport is no less useful than anyother sport... so air racing is a waste but soccer is helping to cure cancer? its a sport for a reason, to show the players skill and have fun

[8614007]

Its like flying a World War I plane,just flying way much faster with a huge fan blowing IN YO FACE!

[drpepper275]

First rule in any in-flight emergency. Fly the airplane! Good job Kirby.

[Nex5y]

i can only imagine that poor face freezed out :D

[Christysturza]

wo ! thats bad

[necabiris]

Red Bull shows how it's done :D

Anybody interested in military / artistic flight shows should come to zeltweg - austria where there is a spectacular air show every 3 years or so!

[burrysw]

No ejection seat in redbull aircraft

[shebz119125130]

@burrysw doesnt matter red bull gives you wings

[marick626]

@burrysw

They wear parachutes. They have to jump out just like pilots back in WWII.

[dshiznit1123]

@burrysw seriously??

[rovpilot1]

@burrysw duhhhhh

[charlesw211]

@burrysw why would you eject if the aircraft worked fine, it's just a bit chilly

[TurbineProductionsX]

@burrysw no shit ... -___-

[TheCorbuzier]

eject.. eject..!!

hahaha...

0:14 look at his face..

hahaha...

[OneSkiWonder]

Ejecting means you're plane is scraped. A good pilot only ejects if he has no other options.

[Jeromy2]

whats with the shitty music

[jjjazzycraig]

at 5'3 and 483 lbs, i can handle 12 g's without a need for a sissy g suit.

[nishbrown]

No, actually, you would suffer a black, or red -out easier than someone who is fit and who's body can resist the forces better. Besides, you wouldn't fit into an aerobatic plane.

[jjjazzycraig]

wrong...fit guys with low pressure blackout easier than fat short dudes with high bp. do not even need g suits,

[rmnldr]

you would throw up your quadruple delux cheeseburger... if the plane could take off, or even if you could get in

[jjjazzycraig]

i do not eat cheezburgers...i am lactose intolerant.

[NothingP]

That would be fun to ride on that.

[DaedricLavaWhiskey]

wow he actually didnt take that too bad if it were me and the canopy popped open i would probably flip shit rofl good thing he wasnt too high and the cockpit un pressurised

[willcobbsail]

hahaha look at his face wen it open!

[YoungPilot350]

heh, a little windy? :)

[guitarmasterf18]

now thats a fukin pilot, calm n collected so u can take care of busynass. Others would have freaked out if that had happned

[franktbird]

lots of people often die because of this.

they worry about the door and all the wind and noise and forget to fly the plane.

[slickshoesken]

never knew they made planes in convertibles

[Yafra46]

ma dai. come cazzo a fatto ad aprirsi ,,,

[Alttone]

hannes is the best

[Laraircraft]

in flight training I was always told in an emergency canopy opening to FLY THE AIRPLANE!!

[cardinaldriver]

Poor Kirby!

[Boomschakalaka134]

name of the song

[scuderia111111111111]

when it opens he looks very casual when it opens

[BatgurlRacing]

and why would he be? it is not an emergency...mostly just an inconvenience.

[jacobbill]

When he's on the ground, it looks like my last semester science teacher! O.O

[chewydude4]

haha his skin was blowing and then as soon as he lands he closes it

[Deadshot001]

these planes are insane, they pull more g's on a turn than fighter planes

[hoetan]

Not really. About 9Gs is the same as fighter planes.

[jderumeu]

russian aerobatic planes like the su31 yak55 they r tested for +-20Gz

and approved for +-10G..most western race planes r bout the same only lighter..great G tolerance for spars struts and structures comes at the expense of weight most of the time..

military jets r built to take more than +-20G but their flight management computers allow only 12 or so to prevent pilot blackout after more than 10sec or so..

greater power means they can hold high Gs for much longer thats y the pilots wear Gsuits

[footballhokie]

what are Gsuits? how do they work?

[jderumeu]

basically they r called anti-Gsuits..they r overalls with straps and inflatable bladders attached to a Gsensor and valve..when positive Gforce is detected on the z scale it automaticaly inflates the bladders thus squeezing your legs around the major arteries and veins and your lower abdomen to keep the blood from pooling low and starving the brain from oxygen..these combined with breathing techniques and proper physical training will keep a pilot awake and flying in long and highG manouvres..

[therockersroc]

they inflate and put pressure on your lower body to assist in keeping blood close to the head, if you ever pull gs in a plane tense your leg muscles and see how different it feels

[lovre666]

a G suit is a special suit that pilots wear. it pumps air around the pilots legs so that during high G manouvers the pilots wouldn't black out.

the pressure around the pilots legs keeps the blood from pouring out of the head ,so the pilots keep their vision :)

[bishboshj]

g-suits are trousers that have bladders that fill up with air when the pilot reaches high gs.This stops the blood from running down to their legs which means their brain gets enough blood and they do not black out

[ZachSwan3]

But the Blue Angels don't wear G-suits because they're badasses. Just  thought I'd throw that out there.

[thomaspendergraft]

They just ear a shit load of salt to keep that Blood pressure up there/

[FoxDie262]

Well, that and because it prevents them from moving.

[nc30chris]

hmmm i dunno bout that im not sure any guys in jet fighter display teams could get away with the g forces tbh, im not saying you're wrong, but il be surprised if they dont wear them :P

[MiniDevilDF]

It's not because they are badasses. They are demonstration pilots, and not combat pilots. They know the maneuvers they will be doing far ahead of time, and they do not do any maneuvers that will seriously risk them blacking out or redding out. Their course is strict and they do not deviate from it. Also, a g-suit constantly inflating and deflating would make the aircraft harder to control, which would be a high risk while doing such close maneuvers. But yes, they are badass!

[blackouttsi]

Pulling 12 gs is a a risk for blacking out

[MiniDevilDF]

Keep in mind that they are demonstration pilots and most of the maneuvering is done at low speed with very minimal G forces. Also keep in mind that G forces are not necessarily a blackout risk unless they are maintained (which they really don't as they are not in a turning dogfight).

Also, isn't the F18's G-rating around 9?

[blackouttsi]

The military has tested human tolerance to g's. A sudden onset of 8 to 10 g's can enter you into g-loc in 5 to 7 seconds. So, you don't need to be exposed for long periods of time to g-loc

[MiniDevilDF]

5 to 7 seconds is a long time for a subsonic formation display

[drmmrlittle]

They are pulling around 9.5 g's on some of those turns in the race.

[MiniDevilDF]

This comment string is about the blue angels, actually, it got sidetracked.

[Navinajr]

You are dead wrong, buddy. 300mph and 12 g's is very common for these guys. The fly the Redbull air race. I was a mechanic for one for a year.

[MiniDevilDF]

Why do people keep on thinking that my posts had anything to do with the Red Bull Air Race? Scroll back up and read the actual topic which was the Blue Angels sustaining 12+ g's for prolonged periods of time during subsonic formation flying in an F18 which is only rated to handle around 9g's

[Navinajr]

Well, DF maybe because the video is about Red Bull racing.... hmm....

[Navinajr]

these guys don't wear them either

[whitireia]

They are flight suits for women. Kind of like a g-string....ahahaha

[gierschey]

it is funny how he closes it whe he lands

[Cletten]

Whatch the skin! Cool!

[mobius1291]

it would be cool if the planes were open cockpit like in F1

[Doulos202]

They had open cockpit planes but those were in ww1 and are called biplanes.

[tubeyou443]

at these speeds a mosquito would become a bullet

[randommagnum]

I'll bet that guy shit his pants when that happened! I know I would have.

[FlockAirPilot001]

incresed visability much?

[Southerncowboyz]

Kirby Chambliss is the MICHAEL JORDAN of the skies.

[pingpongdude39]

I thought it was Sean Tucker O_o

[GreenAce92]

a bit wrinkly?

[rossmmross]

Someone fucked up there, +0.51s, He's def fucking.

[Apollo580]

Hey a nice breeze is good for you. XD

[jeffodickenson]

you can tell this dude is a dick

[megaxpand]

what is the song?

[mopar92]

Skipplet, post a link... it's in your cache in your computer. I have googled my brains out.... nothing. Post a link.

[flyboy3d]

it was the extreme hair blow dryer!!!!

[mopar92]

F-14 Convertible not on google anymore... what was it??

[skipplet]

It's still there for me. It's an F-14 who's RIO ejected by accident leaving the pilot to fly the jet back on his own... without a canopy...

[skipplet]

Google "F-14 convertible" and look at the first picture that comes up.

[ThomCoker]

Fuck you dude. im the one who made a stupid comment???? i said this guys a man and you said you can go 80 in your truck (with a fuckin windsheild. wow this guy must be smart) and you still say I yes me made a stupid comment. that is the dumbest shit ive ever fucking herd

[skipplet]

You're an idiot.

[rossmmross]

I don't even know what you guys are talking about, but I reckon you must be about one of the dumbest fucking fools i've come across. Fucking read what you type.

[ThomCoker]

yea bitch thats all you got to say.

[ThomCoker]

holy shit that guy is a strait man if he can land a plain goin like 80mph with his canopy open

[skipplet]

Are you serious ThomCoker? I drive down the highway with my windows open at 80 mph.

[ThomCoker]

yea bitch everyone can do that.....does your fuckin truck fly 2000 feet in the fuckin air? didnt think so. so just calm your ass and dont bother me anymore

[skipplet]

lmao - who pissed in your wheaties? You made a dumb comment. Live with it.

[dan10024]

LMFAO.

[nomad1545]

I would laght my ass of, if that happen to me xD. Funny, but serious at the same time. But very funny xD.

[panictactics]

Idiot

[doffincodger]

I am amazed that the canopy survived! It should have just jettisioned' The pilot was dead lucky not to have forked out for a new one! (By the way, does anyone know where I can obtain a replacement Pilatus B4 canopy?)

[rchavoc]

Actualy, that plane can withstand more then you think. It was designed for aerobatics with its full carbon fiber wing design. Thats Kirby Chambliss, Im sure he has a good understanding of wind force...

[FiliberkeNys]

He thought he could close it during flight... Strange for a pilot not to understand the forces of wind & nature?

Planes were NOT built to race!

[darkace92691]

Hahaha yes, THESE planes WERE built to race! And I guarntee you Kirby Chambliss understands wind force. Thats probably why he didnt keep trying to close it!

[Navinajr]

Are you insane?? Planes have been racing ever since the Wright Brothers first took to the skies. If they didn't race, we never would have reached Mach 1 and beyond.

[silaqe]

you are so stupid :)

[mterfehr]

Damm good think he was goin so slow when it opened.

[Superegio42]

Flying with the top down, at cruising speed looking for chicks.

Scary but classic.

[hangarrat101]

I'm amazed that the hinges didn't shear

[Rinocerente]

HAHA, thats weird

[stas07f]

guess he's never flown for skydivers

[adamstuartking]

Why didn't he just yaw the opposite way to blow it shut?

[SenorSpode]

It doesn't work that way. The canopy will simply open back up again and possibly separate from the fuselage and hit an empennage surface, potentially damaging it and jeopardizing the pilot. He did the best one could do: Maintain self- and aircraft-control, slow down, land and assess/fix the problem. You can't pull over on a cloud and fix it.

[Smartathanyou]

it would be an uncontrollable closure most likely shattering the canopy, flying off and destroying the empennage. A quick,ugly death.

He did the right thing. Fly the airplane. Don't screw around with a stablized situation if the airplane still flies.

[elmatt2288]

Kirby Chambliss is a BAMF. I'm surprised he didn't fly through some trees so that he could show those leaves and branches who's boss.

[LCPStud]

He coulda stomped some left rudder and put some airflow onto the top of the canopy to close it, but I bet he wasn't sure if it slam shut super hard and break something, or shut un-cleanly and maybe break the hinges, at which point he might end up eating the canopy.

Probably decided it was best bet to just slow down and land, hoping it didn't break off and take out the tail.

I am an expert cuz I am from Northern California. It qualifies me to speak like I know WTF I am talking about.

[Engineer6418]

He probably needed and change of underwear and some eye drops after that. Yikes!

[jcreature]

The red bull pilots are already totally badass, but they would be badasser if they flew open canopy.

[GREYMANTIS7]

Your mother is a fat pig, you are only a turd punk.

[1factoid]

Oh, damn, I'm hurt!