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                           Rocket-List Digest Archive
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                     Total Messages Posted Mon 12/13/04: 2
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Today's Message Index:
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     1. 11:37 AM - flopper latch  (Frazier, Vincent A)
     2. 02:17 PM - Re: flopper latch  (Archie)
 
 
 
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Time: 11:37:11 AM PST US
Subject: Rocket-List: flopper latch
From: "Frazier, Vincent A" <VFrazier@usi.edu>

--> Rocket-List message posted by: "Frazier, Vincent A" <VFrazier@usi.edu>


Guys,
I need an elegant way to latch my flopper canopy to the roll bar so I
can taxi with the flopper about 1/2 way open.    Anyone have pictures of
a working latch?  Or can you describe a good technique other than
holding it with my third hand... which I don't have.
BTW, I don't mean a few inches open for ventilation.  I've got that
covered.  I mean open such that I can stick my head out and look down
either side of the plane. 
Ground visibility over the nose of this thing is not the best.  Yeah,
s-turns, I know all about them, save your breath.  I want to have the
OPTION of taxiing with the lid open so I don't run over a baby stroller
at Oshkosh or taxi into a hole on some grass strip.

Vince
F-1H Rocket, N540VF
http://www.usi.edu/science/chemistry/vfrazier/page1.html






________________________________  Message 2  _____________________________________


Time: 02:17:21 PM PST US
From: "Archie" <archie97@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Rocket-List: flopper latch

--> Rocket-List message posted by: "Archie" <archie97@earthlink.net>

I made a telescopic device (not for an RV), out of 3/4' sq tube,
and then with a series of holes, made it almost infinitely adjustable
using one finger to make the adjustment.
Archie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frazier, Vincent A" <VFrazier@usi.edu>
Subject: Rocket-List: flopper latch


> --> Rocket-List message posted by: "Frazier, Vincent A" <VFrazier@usi.edu>
>
>
> Guys,
> I need an elegant way to latch my flopper canopy to the roll bar so I
> can taxi with the flopper about 1/2 way open.    Anyone have pictures of
> a working latch?  Or can you describe a good technique other than
> holding it with my third hand... which I don't have.
> BTW, I don't mean a few inches open for ventilation.  I've got that
> covered.  I mean open such that I can stick my head out and look down
> either side of the plane.
> Ground visibility over the nose of this thing is not the best.  Yeah,
> s-turns, I know all about them, save your breath.  I want to have the
> OPTION of taxiing with the lid open so I don't run over a baby stroller
> at Oshkosh or taxi into a hole on some grass strip.
>
> Vince
> F-1H Rocket, N540VF
> http://www.usi.edu/science/chemistry/vfrazier/page1.html
>
>
>