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10-09-2019, 10:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Mel
Or maybe just prior to "ditching".
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Some people feel that way but not me.
At least I wouldn't want to have it fully open anyway, but I wont go on about that........ I have covered it in other threads.
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10-09-2019, 11:25 AM
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For leaving the plane with a chute or ditching, I'd want the canopy gone.
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10-09-2019, 12:30 PM
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Recipe for a really bad day
While I love the experimental spirit...unless the canopy is specifically designed to be opened in flight, I strongly recommend not doing so. The prop-wash and windscreen burble might introduce pressures/forces which could relieve the airplane of the canopy entirely...and some or all of the vertical stab.
Emergency egress is the exception of course.
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10-09-2019, 02:50 PM
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Speaking of canopies coming off. At the 2016 STOL Roundup in Llano, TX I saw an RV-8 canopy laying in the grass and then I saw the airplane taxi by without the canopy. I felt sorry for the fellow thinking he was taxiing to a maintenance hangar to lick his wounds. To my amazement he turned and took off as part of the flour bombing competition. He had purposely removed the canopy in order to compete. Crazy Texan. He was solo and had a bombing technique of pulling vertical and lobbing the flour sack over his shoulder backwards. The son of a gun came in like second, and better than a lot of slow open air Cub types. It was the highlight of the event for me.
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10-09-2019, 03:17 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2013
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Hmmmm.....so this can be done!? I wonder what Vans has to say about it. Been wanting to eject a skydiver from the plane like they did with the gliders (ref. YouTube) for some time.
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Originally Posted by jliltd
Speaking of canopies coming off. At the 2016 STOL Roundup in Llano, TX I saw an RV-8 canopy laying in the grass and then I saw the airplane taxi by without the canopy. I felt sorry for the fellow thinking he was taxiing to a maintenance hangar to lick his wounds. To my amazement he turned and took off as part of the flour bombing competition. He had purposely removed the canopy in order to compete. Crazy Texan. He was solo and had a bombing technique of pulling vertical and lobbing the flour sack over his shoulder backwards. The son of a gun came in like second, and better than a lot of slow open air Cub types. It was the highlight of the event for me.
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10-09-2019, 04:22 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Davis, CA, USA
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Originally Posted by WingnutWick
Hmmmm.....so this can be done!? I wonder what Vans has to say about it. Been wanting to eject a skydiver from the plane like they did with the gliders (ref. YouTube) for some time.
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Might want to check your ops limits. I think mine says something about no glider towing, banner towing, or skydiving.
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10-09-2019, 04:24 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Dallas area
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Quote:
Originally Posted by WingnutWick
Hmmmm.....so this can be done!? I wonder what Vans has to say about it. Been wanting to eject a skydiver from the plane like they did with the gliders (ref. YouTube) for some time.
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Check your operating limitations before doing this. Unless they have been amended, intentional parachute jumping is prohibited from Amateur-Built aircraft.
So, Jeff types faster than I do.
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10-09-2019, 04:37 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2016
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Originally Posted by jcaplins
Might want to check your ops limits. I think mine says something about no glider towing, banner towing, or skydiving.
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Wasn't there a video on here recently of someone doing just this? Skydiver out of a 7 (may have been a 6) with the canopy removed. Can't find the link
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10-09-2019, 04:49 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dreed
Wasn't there a video on here recently of someone doing just this? Skydiver out of a 7 (may have been a 6) with the canopy removed. Can't find the link
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Just because it's been done doesn't mean it was legal. It's also possible that they had their op lims amended to allow parachute jumping.
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Recipient of Tony Bingelis Award and Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award
USAF Vet, High School E-LSA Project Mentor.
RV-6 Flying since 1993 (sold)
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10-09-2019, 06:12 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2016
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Mel- Sorry- was not my intent to infer it was legal. Actually, from watching the video I think the guys were pushing it even if legal.
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