On Nov 28, 8:56 am, wrote:
I'm curious about the "sport canopy". Do you refer to flying with the
canopy removed? Is this something people talk about?

Many years ago, afternoon on a nice summer day at
Sugarbush, one of the pundits spotted my whale, sans
overhead canopy, near the flight line. "Have you forgot
something Dave" asks the pundit ? Nawh, says one
of my buddies, Dave's just decided its too much work
to clean the canopy and decided its unnecessary in
any case, and its easier to see out without the
dirty canopy. So the pundit gives us a long lecture
on how the turbulence from the open area will
cause the thing to be unstable and I'll no doubt
crash and die. And a lot of really big words poor
Dave couldn't pronounce let alone comprehend.
Lecture continued for many minutes.

Had to finally explain that I came down because
I was freezing my ass off in the wave sans canopy,
really guys flies just fine, left it by the flight line
because I'll go back up after I warm up a bit
but this time not up in the wave. And I'll clean
the canopy some other day...

Will a B4 explode if you fly it with the canopy removed?

Undoubtedly, according to the pundit ;-)

See ya, Dave "YO"

PS: I know, I've got to get the whale back in
the air someday...

PPS: Seriously, not all of our toys are safe
without canopy...