"Peter Dohm" wrote in message
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I suspect that a safety catch of a type common on the engine hoods of
automobiles and placed close enough to the latched position to preclude
oscillation, accompanied by the installation of a warning lamp when the
canopy is not in its fully latched position, would both mitigate the
result of an unlatched canopy and make the occurance less likely.

I agree 100%. Your car door latches automatically when you close it. We
would not tolerate car doors that did anything else, because if they did NOT
latch automatically, people would fall out of cars and be killed with
depressing regularity. Unlatched canopies kill people...why can't they be
made to latch automatically?

This ain't rocket science.

Vaughn