Scary Process of Inspecting Air Intake of US F-16’s Monstrously Powerful Engine

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[@KenSmith-bv4si]

The intake inspection is only dangerous when the engine is running.

[@user-pl9ex6wc1c]

Alove you thankyou god

[@user-pl9ex6wc1c]

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[@thenaturalkc]

Apparently the ground crew handles drop tanks, special pods, and at 1:53, F-BOMBS!

[@mamad_i]

🤩🤩

[@thomastrueheart7762]

Yes tires are critical, but geez who writes this stuff!? And why is inspecting an intake scary?

[@marsrocket]

Intake gremlins might bite you

[@garydurandt4260]

C130 requires 22 hours of maintenance for every one hour of flight time. So if it flies for 8 hours is it in maintenance for one week?

[@asdf9890]

It's not scary if it's off. Most turbine fatalities happen when someone walks in front of the intake and gets sucked in. I was in aviation mechanics in a high school vo-tech program. One day our instructor showed us photos of what was left of a guy who this happened to. That image is still burned into my mind 3 decades later. Climbing into an F16 intake though? That looks very claustrophobic!
4:50 "that ain't goin nowhere" 😅

[@Dumb-Comment]

5 million dollars inspection 😂