Author Topic: open an close cockpit (Read 1060 times)

bagrat · « **on:** June 27, 2006, 11:25:56 PM »

why not?

Krusty · « **Reply #1 on:** June 27, 2006, 11:35:58 PM »

Why? There is no function, no need, that this would serve. It would have a limited flight envelope in which you could do it, and further even if the canopy is OPEN it doesn't mean your head can move any further than it already does.

I see folks just cheating, opening canopies in slow turn fights so they don't have to look around canopy frames.

bagrat · « **Reply #2 on:** June 27, 2006, 11:52:15 PM »

but....we have a sun.. and it moves

EagleEyes · « **Reply #3 on:** June 28, 2006, 01:55:46 AM »

to make bailing out more difficult. You have to open the canopy to bail out. Just my 2 cents.

bkbandit · « **Reply #4 on:** June 28, 2006, 03:36:47 AM »

stickin ur head out the cockpit could help when landing on carriers, thats the only thing i see it helping.

RTSigma · « **Reply #5 on:** June 28, 2006, 04:42:35 AM »

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Originally posted by bkbandit
stickin ur head out the cockpit could help when landing on carriers, thats the only thing i see it helping.

Ever stuck your head out the window at 120mph?

The reasons the cockpit was open when landing on carriers was so the pilot could get out ASAP in case he ditched into the ocean on a bad landing or if his plane was heavily damaged and needed to get out when he touched down.

badhorse · « **Reply #6 on:** June 28, 2006, 06:49:43 AM »

Would be nice to have the option when your windshield is covered with oil to be able to open the canopy.
Side slipping the airplane with the canopy open would make being low and slow (like landing approach) a little less..... interesting.

sharp8th · « **Reply #7 on:** June 28, 2006, 10:15:28 AM »

Krusty · « **Reply #8 on:** June 28, 2006, 12:40:10 PM »

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Originally posted by badhorse
Would be nice to have the option when your windshield is covered with oil to be able to open the canopy.

" And get oil in your face, permanently blinding you, mucking up your eyes and suffocating you"

There, you forgot to finish that statement.

Just because the oil is stationary on your windscreen doesn't mean it has stopped flowing. The oil keeps flowing out of its leaks.

Ack-Ack · « **Reply #9 on:** June 28, 2006, 04:12:34 PM »

but damnit! WW1 planes had open cockpits!

ack-ack

ridley1 · « **Reply #10 on:** June 28, 2006, 04:19:58 PM »

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Originally posted by Ack-Ack
but damnit! WW1 planes had open cockpits!

And were lubricated with castor oil....and leaked like a sieve.

That's why they wore scarfs...to clean off their goggles,

I believe the only benefit was that pilots never needed bran flakes.

badhorse · « **Reply #11 on:** June 28, 2006, 08:26:01 PM »

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Originally posted by Krusty
" And get oil in your face, permanently blinding you, mucking up your eyes and suffocating you"

There, you forgot to finish that statement.

Just because the oil is stationary on your windscreen doesn't mean it has stopped flowing. The oil keeps flowing out of its leaks.

Krusty remember you would be in a side slip. The oil would still be coming out true, but it would be sliding away from you. In a slip you are at an angle, not straight into the wind. That is why a slip is so effective in losing altitude. You are presenting more of the side of the airplane to the wind. (which one depends on rudder direction)

bagrat · « **Reply #12 on:** June 28, 2006, 09:23:19 PM »

Krusty remember you would be in a side slip. The oil would still be coming out true, but it would be sliding away from you. In a slip you are at an angle, not straight into the wind. That is why a slip is so effective in losing altitude. You are presenting more of the side of the airplane to the wind. (which one depends on rudder direction)

ooh PWND!

ujustdied · « **Reply #13 on:** June 28, 2006, 11:56:23 PM »

ya i thin it would look cool like for pictures and stuff but also the reason why they opened the canopy was becasuse it was so hot when the were on the ground and they liked the breeze i guess. but yes id like to have an oppening and closing canopy.

bagrat · « **Reply #14 on:** June 29, 2006, 01:04:36 AM »

they had it open more often then people think, some of u saw that recent P-47 film that was all cool an stuff, anyway there was a clip where a pilot was strafing somethin and his canopy was open.