I firmly beleive Wayne's flip-over was the exception, not the rule in hard landings which would cause injury or death. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Syd, Perhaps you are right it might of been the exception. Wayne and I have only seen 3 coupes crashed.
One came a part in the air from a folded wing...do not want to go there, it was a Calif. pilot that we knew very well. The other one flipped over in a marsh.. and pilot didn't survive. With ours... we only wanted to point out that the top of the canopy is not that strong. If you draw a line from the top of the engine to the top of the vertical tail fin. You can see what gets flatten when you flip it over on its back.. the reason it gets the canopy is due to the nose gear folding back under the plane. Some day while sitting in your coupe, with your feet out straight in front of you, with your seat belt fastened,lean forward you hit the yoke not the instrument panel. It really is just a matter of choice.... we had bought a pair of the hooker harnesses to put into that plane... they came with the seat belts when we restored her... The harnesse part we gave to Patty Wagstaff, for her plane. Waynes, head has gone thru the canopy twice once in Missouri, when the plane hit a large air pocket. The second time was when the plane flipped over, his cuts was from the plexiglass on the top of the plane. Audean Woollard N6596Q
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