ace nunye wrote: >>I have a D/F canopy and what was advertised as a KR-2S canopy and looks to me >>like there is gonna be ALOT of cutting to make the D?F fit, so much that i am >>seriously thinking about either not using the canopy frame or not using the >>D/F glass. <<
Well, I'm sure Roy had to do exactly what anybody else does that puts a Dragonfly on his plane, he had to cut a few inches off the back, and probably under the front, to make it fit.Then a "splash" was made of HIS canopy (after it was cut down) and then the KR2S canopies were made from that. The Dragonfly canopy is so flexible that it will conform quite easily to a variety of shapes, an advantage to it's reduced thickness, in my book. A Pulsar canopy might be another good option, but I'm sure you'd have to cut on it too. Justin, one secret to the linkage arrangement of Roy's canopy is that there is a torque tube behind the panel that connects the two forward links together, and holds them rigidly in sync with each other. If you just support the canopy on four independent links, you'll have an uncontrollable floppy mess on your hands. If I had it to do over again, I'd do a gull wing. Just think about sealing that high-pressure canopy joint at the front against 200 mph wind. Mark Langford, Huntsville, AL mailto:[email protected] see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford
