I have been thinking about this as well ( except for the "plastique"!). I
like the "Pull Tab idea".
I was thinking a small survival type hatchet, the kind with a saw, compass,
matches, fish hooks, flame thrower.... It would be handy to tear your way
out of the cockpit and to keep yourself entertained until the CAP gets
there.
With the DragonFly as light as it is, in the event of a flip over, how hard
would it be to release your seatbelt and canopy latch, flip over with your
feet on the canopy and your hands in the seat bottom and just stand up?
David Koelzer
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Morris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 1998 3:07 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: DFLY: Canopy & emergency exit
At 02:38 PM 6/2/98 -0500, you wrote:
>dont forget the gas leaking out allover and maybe puddling in the canopy.
>Battery hanging by the cables, etc...The USAF used to keep a big canopy
>breakout tool in T-37s to assist in just such an emergency. There was a
guy
>a few years back flipped over in shallow water....
A bad-ass knife is going to definitely be in my toolkit. I remember
hearing some Navy pilots talking about carving their way out of canopies
years ago. We also had some conversations here recently about breakaway
fuselage panels and such, but I don't know if anyone has actually
implemented them.
I think a little plastique permanently embedded in the fuselage walls in
the form of a rectangle between the seatback, the longerons, and the seat
bottom, some pryotechnic devices and well, hopefully there ISNT any fuel
puddling in the canopy!!! The low-tech way would be to use some of that
string, knotted the way they do to hold bags of dog-food shut.......
I can't wait to buy one of those little yellow triangles that says
"RESCUE".
Dave
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