RVG8tor
Well Known Member
OK in a perfect world you make the big cut fasten the two halves and the gap in the Plexiglas between the windscreen and the canopy should be something close to the kerf of the blade used to cut the bubble in half. Well I cut mine and was not so stead, then when fitting the aft (canopy part) I move it forward a couple inches and made a new cut that I am much happier with. My problem is now the windscreen does not match up with the edge of the canopy. I want to make a new cut to the windscreen but then this will leave me with a fairly large gap between the two halves. The fiberglass fairing will cover up any unevenness but how important is the gap between the two halves. I am thinking I can build up the fairing as required to make the gap smaller and even across the face. The only issue I can see with a wider gap is water intrusion due to blowing wind when the plane is on the ground, in flight I think it would just run aft on the outside. I guess there could be some whistling noise in flight. I plan to do some type of weather striping to help seal for wind and water, not sure what is recommended.
It seems one can do wonders working with fiberglass in this situation, of course I have no experience with that yet! Any advice is welcomed.
It seems one can do wonders working with fiberglass in this situation, of course I have no experience with that yet! Any advice is welcomed.