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I'm just going to quote him, cause you guys didn't seem to catch this. He's saying this is familiar with military jets, so that incase the pilot has to either eject or something happens to the canopy, that it will open properly, or it will shatter without hurting the pilot.
Originally posted by ROBL240
Im a few years behind on my Military Jets, but im fairly sure with the Panavia Tornado Jets they have Rivets on the Canopy to 1. Act as a better Lightning conductor, in the event the Aircraft gets hit by a Lightning bolt the designers put a series of Rivets acorss the Glass Canopy to distribute the Electrical Current otherwise the glass would just shatter.
The Rivets also act as Seperators should the pilot ever need to Eject, instead of the Canopy staying as whole (and posing a fatal risk to the Pilot) the design also incoroprates it so that the glass shatters across these Rivet points seperating the glass and limiting the danger to the Ejecting Pilot.
Originally posted by ls1cameric
Originally posted by IgnoreTheFacts
Seriously? It's either a bug or goose poop on the windshield. I don't know what is worse here, the original video poster thinking there is something in this vid that is worth believing in, or the fact that there are so many out there that would agree with him, lol.
So yeah, I'd say nothing to see here, move along.
For those of you that really want to believe in this stuff, it is time to bring the hammer down on this type of silliness. It makes you look bad.
Seriously... Are you serious? A bug? This isnt you driving your civic around campus, it's a fighter jet. Seeing that these jets cruz at 1500mph it's not very likely that it's bird crap or a bug in the window. For one, the windows are cleaned before flight and if it were to actually hit a bug, it would be evaporated most likely because of the force involved in the collision. Also if it were bird crap well it would have to have been above the jet and most birds do not fly in the clouds that I'm aware of. And it too would have smeared or been evaporated when hitting the surface just like the bug.
By looking at some of your previous post, you seem to blurt out idiotic idias based off of your own lack of intelligence or common sense. If your a skecptic, thats cool but offer some thought behind your explination instead of gradeschool suggestions that are very likely not the case.
Originally posted by ls1cameric
Seriously... Are you serious? A bug? This isnt you driving your civic around campus, it's a fighter jet.
Originally posted by TravisTAlso, if there was something chasing a fighter jet, don't you think the camera would be on the object(UFO), and not the actual jet?
[edit on 7-5-2009 by TravisT]