Netters, I'm building a fwd hinged canopy, similar to Mark L's. Once the fiberglass frame is fabricated / Bonded onto the canopy, according to Todd Silver (Todd's Canopy's) the canopy is supposed to get "surprisingly rigid". This thing is like a wet noodle. I've constructed the outer frame consisting of 7 plys of 2 inch tape, an aft hoop, canopy sills out of 1/4 x 3" spruce, with a 5/8 spruce cap bonded together. With everything clamped up, the canopy is anything but rigid, and concerns me about retaining it's shape during flight. I still have to flox the inner frame hoop, canopy sills, and forward hoop into the inside of the canopy and everything together, but I'm still very, very concerned about the lack of torsional rigidity of this whole structure. Am I missing something somewhere?
Scott Cable KR-2S # 735 Wright City, MO [email protected] --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Find out what made the Top Yahoo! Searches of 2003
