"John" wrote in message
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When you shut your car door, it is latched shut automatically. To
open, you have to pull the door handle. How hard would it be to
design a canopy that would latch shut automatically each time you
close the canopy?

Exactly! There is no excuse for the canopy latches on many common
gliders. A canopy should latch when it is shut and you should be able to
open it with one motion; just like a car door or the door on the front of
your house. This is not rocket science we are asking for, just normal human
engineering.

For a good read on the problem, just take a look at the accident
history of the Grobe Twin. As I remember, a very significant percentage of
the total accidents (some fatal) for that design involve canopies.

Vaughn