The T18 canopy has to be almost closed when starting the engine or it will slam shut and try to take your head off!! The airflow over the canopy shoves the canopy forward making it almost impossible to reopen after engine start. I seriously doubt you could get out of the plane without breaking the canopy if you had an inflight problem and needed to bail out!!
Ron --- Steve Jacobs <st...@johnmartin.co.za> wrote: > > > Reducing the taper to resemble a bubble will cost > you in performance in > > the > > form of drag on the back of the canopy. That's > probably why the KR2 went > > to > > the straight turtledeck. And plexiglas is > probably heavier than your > > average turtledeck material per square foot. > > +++++++++++++++ > > Not sure that's right Mark - refer the 240 mph > (2,000lb) GP4, T18 and > Mustang II plus any number of modern designs that > have concave curves in all > planes. (Apogee??) > > > > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at > http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to > krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at > http://www.krnet.org/info.html >
