SilverHamer
06-18-2007, 03:13 AM
I wonder how Lockheed Martin will explain this?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/LarryC/Hawk%20Studio%20Forum/F2201.jpg
"You've got to be kidding me...there MUST be a handle in here somewhere!"
The Self-Locking F-22
By ROBERT BRYCE
Last week, Lockheed Martin announced that its profits were up a hefty 60 percent in the first quarter. The company earned $591 million in profit on revenues of $9.2 billion. Now, if the company could just figure out how to put a door handle on its new $361 million F-22 fighter, its prospects would really soar.
On April 10, at Langley Air Force Base, an F-22 pilot, Capt. Brad Spears, was locked inside the cockpit of his aircraft for five hours. No one in the U.S. Air Force or from Lockheed Martin could figure out how to open the aircraft's canopy. At about 1:15 pm , chainsaw-wielding firefighters from the 1st Fighter Wing finally extracted Spears after they cut through the F-22's three-quarter inch-thick polycarbonate canopy.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/LarryC/Hawk%20Studio%20Forum/F2202.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/LarryC/Hawk%20Studio%20Forum/F2203.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/LarryC/Hawk%20Studio%20Forum/F2204.jpg
Total damage to the airplane, according to sources inside the Pentagon: $1.28 million. Not only did the firefighters ruin the canopy, which cost $286,000, they also scuffed the coating on the airplane's skin which will cost about $1 million to replace.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/LarryC/Hawk%20Studio%20Forum/F2201.jpg
"You've got to be kidding me...there MUST be a handle in here somewhere!"
The Self-Locking F-22
By ROBERT BRYCE
Last week, Lockheed Martin announced that its profits were up a hefty 60 percent in the first quarter. The company earned $591 million in profit on revenues of $9.2 billion. Now, if the company could just figure out how to put a door handle on its new $361 million F-22 fighter, its prospects would really soar.
On April 10, at Langley Air Force Base, an F-22 pilot, Capt. Brad Spears, was locked inside the cockpit of his aircraft for five hours. No one in the U.S. Air Force or from Lockheed Martin could figure out how to open the aircraft's canopy. At about 1:15 pm , chainsaw-wielding firefighters from the 1st Fighter Wing finally extracted Spears after they cut through the F-22's three-quarter inch-thick polycarbonate canopy.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/LarryC/Hawk%20Studio%20Forum/F2202.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/LarryC/Hawk%20Studio%20Forum/F2203.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/LarryC/Hawk%20Studio%20Forum/F2204.jpg
Total damage to the airplane, according to sources inside the Pentagon: $1.28 million. Not only did the firefighters ruin the canopy, which cost $286,000, they also scuffed the coating on the airplane's skin which will cost about $1 million to replace.