The bit that’s flipped up there, so that the pilot can climb inside the jet. What’s that called?
I swear to God I’ve just spent several minutes looking for the answer with no luck. Closest I can get is “windshield,” but I feel like that shouldn’t apply to the back part of the damn thing and plus windshield doesn’t repurpose to part of a spacecraft all that well, since there’s no goddamn wind. Vacuumshield? Dumb.
Words are stupid.
(Sidenote: Ha! There was a period of time early in the life of the blog where for some reason WordPress wanted to add “aviation” as a tag to every single post I wrote no matter what. I get to use it for real!)
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It’s called a “canopy.”
I looked in our History of Flight book in the family library. I think the fixed part is called a “bubble canopy” but I could be wrong about that.
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It is called the canopy. I typed in ‘fighter jet glass cockpit cover called’ and that’s what came up.
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When you said that I was think… hmm what would a pilot with his jet on fire needing to eject tell the com back at base if he’d forgotten the name of that canopy: “Dam, joe, its the flip-top gizmo, the crash-screen, the buggeroo-slipdisk, the flapjack-pane, my glass-steed riser… dang, Joe, I haven’t a clue, but I need the button who cares about the name?” Joe carefully thinks through what he’s just heard, and says: “Hit the panic button, Cap…” Bam… the panic button flip-tops the crash-screen over the forest canopy… Cap says: “I know what it is… a dang canopy!”
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True fact: there is a condition called “dysnomia” that causes its sufferers to frequently forget common nouns. I am convinced that I have a dose of it, as I forget what things are called ALL THE FUCKING TIME.
Except for the word “dysnomia.” I have never, not once since learning what it meant, forgotten the word “dysnomia.” 🙂
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What was that word again? 🙂 haha
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Interesting question and musing. Thank you for reading and liking on my blog, Luther.
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That’s how I am with “aphasia.” I never forget that word, least of all when I’m experiencing it over basic things.
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