Has anyone experienced a canopy opening mid flight? does it has a detrimental effects on the aircraft control?
Any advise on this would be appreciated..
Regards,
Simbol
Sting S4, canopy open mid fly
Moderator: drseti
Re: Sting S4, canopy open mid fly
You should contact Bill Canino at SportAir and ask - I vaguely remember him mentioning that it would just be a noisy non event but you may want to confirm.
Never happened to me and I am not sure how it would happen since it is positively self locking on S4 at the top of the canopy and handles/locks on both sides of the canopy are there just to immobilize it so it doesn’t rattle.
Never happened to me and I am not sure how it would happen since it is positively self locking on S4 at the top of the canopy and handles/locks on both sides of the canopy are there just to immobilize it so it doesn’t rattle.
Flying Sting S4 ( N184WA ) out of Illinois
Re: Sting S4, canopy open mid fly
I had an issue I will find my YouTube link
Last edited by David on Tue Feb 01, 2022 7:39 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Sting S4, canopy open mid fly
I had the latch fail on my tip up canopy on my RV12, it was a non event video below of the flight. Remember first rule fly the plane.
https://youtu.be/WXmbMc04wsk