On Saturday, 2 August 2014 17:51:09 UTC+1, Martin Gregorie wrote:
On Sun, 03 Aug 2014 04:18:17 +1200, Bruce Hoult wrote:



On 2014-08-02 14:21:11 +0000, said:



I notice that he did not jettison his canopy, just opened it.

In the first frame you can see it still attached.



Still worked out ok.



You seem to be able to see the canopy frame attached, but you can see

the canopy itself up to the left of the tailplane.



Agreed. It looks to me as if the frame stayed attached to the fuselage

while the plastic blew out. The latter is quite hard to see and has at

most some paint round its edges.





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When I had my midair the canopy broke away from the frame in the impact leaving the frame in place - and it was still in place later on in the wreckage. The pilot in the other glider, an ASW 27 which has a front hinged cockpit, used the normal canopy release, and had to squeeze himself out against wind pressure between the edge of the cockpit and the canopy. The whole canopy was still attached to the wreckage afterwards. He was surprised to discover this - he thought he had used the red emergency jettison levers, which are ahead of the white canopy release levers in Schleicher gliders. It must have been much more difficult for him to get out (but happily like me he was unhurt). There is a moral there - regularly practice your bail out routine.