What the hell is the vileda stick on the MMU-Kaan?

Within the scope of Teknofest events, the first public taxis of MMU-Kaan and HürJet were made on the last day of the event. After the taxi show, the planes took their place and began to be exhibited. However, during the exhibition, Teknofest and MMU-Kaan engineer team placed a red bar between the canopy of the aircraft and the fuselage. This stick, which is viral on social media as a “vileda stick”, actually serves a completely different purpose. Here are the details on the subject…

Canopy rod is now nicknamed the red vileda stick!

Many aviation products were exhibited in the Teknofest event area for 4 days. The ones that attracted the most attention were the warplanes, as you can imagine. The Turkish Air Force exhibited an F-4 belonging to the 161st Fleet Panthers and an F-16 belonging to the Turkish Air Force at the Teknofest event area. In addition to these, Solo Türk and Turkish Stars planes were exhibited on the runway behind the event area.

Of course, displaying an airplane is a very difficult and safe job. Therefore, some precautions have to be taken in such events. One of them is the canopy rod, which is called the canopy rod. In short, to talk about what the canopy is, we can say that the opening and closing glass partition on the cockpit of the aircraft. Namely, the doors of warplanes.

This piece, called a canopy, is fixed to the body with the help of pistons. Although it varies from aircraft type to type, the amount of weight that these pistons can lift is different. This is why these bars are used if some aircraft will wait with their canopies open each time they are parked.

This situation changes depending on the needs of the aircraft. There is another dimension to the matter. prototype aircraft. These aircraft use a canopy bar even though the piston handling ratios are sufficient. Because no one wants any security gap to occur. In other words, the stick placed in front of MMU-Kaan in the Teknofest area is actually a real aviation tool. It’s not a vileda stick.

There are many planes that use the so-called canopy bar. Eurofighter Typhoon, F-16D jets are among these planes. When we come to the usage areas of the bar, it is generally used in aircraft that need to be stationary for a certain period of time for maintenance or display purposes.

Because the glasses that make up the section we call the canopy are hardened glasses to withstand sudden pressure changes in the air and are quite heavy. If someone falls on them or traps a limb between the canopy and the trunk, serious injury will result.

So what do you think? We are waiting your comments…