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I used to do aircraft salvage - give me that axe and a few minutes and I'll bust out of any aircraft - even quicker if I saw fire!
No kidding - we used regular axes and circular chain saws to cut up aircraft. Once you know what you're doing and know where to cut, you could demolish a fair size aircraft pretty quickly.
If i wasn't wounded I would say within a miunte if I was were there was plexiglass - 5 to 10 minutes within the fuselage.Joe, any idea on how long it would take you to get out of an aircraft say the size of a B-25 from the inside to out. Trying to take into persespective if you crash landed in enemy territory and had to get out fast but the exits where blocked.
Yep - and if you sliced away aw those areas you usually had a chunk of the airplane exposed pretty quickly.If you look on airplanes from the 50s and 60s you might notice a red outlined square with the "corners" indicating with text "CUT HERE" for rescue purposes. These axes were the 'inside' version of rescue equipment.
I just didnt think you could cut through and aircraft so fast with an axe.
Actually fire axes just like the one in the picture are still standard equipment. I was part of one of the crews at Northwest Airlines assigned to do the acceptance inspections on Airbus A-320's and the axe is located in the cockpit directly behind the co-pilot. The DC9's, B727's, B747's and B757's all have them. This raises one of the questions I had about the 911 hijackings. If this axe is (and it is) required equipment, when those Arabs broke into the cockpit brandishing box cutters I wonder if anyone tried to go for the axe? Sure would of even up'd the odds in a hurry if the crews could have got to it.
Very true! Even a pot of hot coffee would of done the trick.Actually fire axes just like the one in the picture are still standard equipment. I was part of one of the crews at Northwest Airlines assigned to do the acceptance inspections on Airbus A-320's and the axe is located in the cockpit directly behind the co-pilot. The DC9's, B727's, B747's and B757's all have them. This raises one of the questions I had about the 911 hijackings. If this axe is (and it is) required equipment, when those Arabs broke into the cockpit brandishing box cutters I wonder if anyone tried to go for the axe? Sure would of even up'd the odds in a hurry if the crews could have got to it.