petercavallo
Well Known Member
Spent some time yesterday testing the ability to eject the slider canopy in my RV6. I have installed removable pins in the canopy bow foward (with nice cable handles) so the test was to see if the canopy could be pulled back enough to push up and off.
With interepit assistant we safety cabled the canopy latch and tested at 120kts and 140 kts. At 120 kts we had to tug back but it cleared the windscreen fiberglass enough , at 140 kts it popped itself back enough as well.
Both times it was not happy about allowing any pushing any farther back. To close and latch the canopy we had to slow to 70 kts to make that possible.
Well it now seems in my RV6 use of a parachute looks possible if needed
Cheers, hope this helps , PS it takes 2 do do this kind of test
Peter RV6 inv system
With interepit assistant we safety cabled the canopy latch and tested at 120kts and 140 kts. At 120 kts we had to tug back but it cleared the windscreen fiberglass enough , at 140 kts it popped itself back enough as well.
Both times it was not happy about allowing any pushing any farther back. To close and latch the canopy we had to slow to 70 kts to make that possible.
Well it now seems in my RV6 use of a parachute looks possible if needed
Cheers, hope this helps , PS it takes 2 do do this kind of test
Peter RV6 inv system