On 5/29/06 6:20 PM, in article ,
"John Weiss" jrweiss98155nospamatnospamcomcastdotnospamnet wrote:

"Mike Kanze" wrote...

A-6 tribal folklore during the early 1970s dictated that one NEVER blew the
canopy prior to ejection, for the very reasons you cite.

Better to get Plexiglas cuts than...

Even when I flew it in the 80s through '93, there were MANY "old hands" who
wouldn't even think of blowing the canopy! Off the cat it was a no-brainer,
but
even for the times when you had the time to think about it, there were few who
would risk a partial canopy jettison (regardless of whether it would take off
the vertical stab).


Legend had it that when you wanted the canopy to jettison it wouldn't.
Sometimes when you wanted to keep it though, it would jettison. I
personally never had any problems.

--Woody