I can assure you that flying open cockpit is a blast! Why else would I purposely degrade the performance of a perfectly fine sailplane?

My extra "Cabriolet" canopy was fabricated here from the Schleicher factory tech note. It's a popular winter project in Europe but I may have the only "convertible" ASK-13 sailplane in the USA, and likely the most colorful!

Scroll through my Facebook page at "Burton Compton" for photos of my open cockpit ASK-13 at Marfa, Texas and at the 2016 International Vintage Sailplane Meet (IVSM) on Harris Hill near Elmira, NY.

Burton von Pickelhaube