Pat--how about a photo of the thing and some ident number?!

> I found the perfect canopy breaking tool in a vendor's shop adjacent to
the AF "boneyard" at Davis >Monthan AFB, Tucson.  Some of those guys buy
lots of odds and ends scrap items for resale. The >tool was designed for the
T-33 and was mounted on the canopy rail in a secure bracket.  It is a very
>heavy round handle, about 6" long, with a heavy duty 2" steel, pointed
blade on the end.  The AF >used them for years. Pat Halloran

A few notes--Some mention was made of the "Automobile Emergency Exit" tool.
These usually have a small hard point for shattering Herculite glass and a
teeny-weenie seat belt cutter. It's not the tool you need to break out of an
airplane.

MUCH better is a 21" Titanium Crowbar, or a Mini-Axe-Prybar, or a short NYFD
Halligan-type forcible entry tool. Gerber has a backpack axe that looks
great and some rescue knives. First choice--check out a Soviet Spetznaz
survival machete--if you can't get out of any aircraft with this thing
comrade--it's because you forgot to bring it.

Regards,
Eric M. Jones
www.PerihelionDesign.com
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Southbridge MA 01550-2705
Phone (508) 764-2072
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