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Re: Foam in wing tanks
I
would spend my time figuring out how to get the door open quickly.....
Additionally, with the types of doors in our planes, which make it
difficult
to exit if the plane is upside down, even a small leak of gas from foamed
tanks will probably be fatal.
In a upside down situation with the 2 place, getting the canopy open will
probably require lifting the airframe high enough to get the canopy open.
This just happened to Dave Anders, at the Reno Races, in his Questair
Venture which had a tilt forward canopy like the Lancair 2 place. Luckily
there were enough people to lift the airframe high enough for Dave to crawl
out.
I have been thinking of handles mounted to the aft cockpit windows that
would allow you to pull the windows off from inside. This could be
accompanied by a bright red arrow placards outside, "EMERGENCY - Kick In
Window".
Steve Colwell Legacy #32 N15SC
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