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From: Kevin Stallard <kevin@arilabs.net>
Subject: P-38's and Legacy Canopys
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Is it Canopys, Canopies or Canopi?

Anyway, you're probably wondering what all this has to do with P-38's

When it first came out and students were learning to fly, there was this in=
cessant rumor that it was a very dangerous airplane because of its performa=
nce on one engine.  If II remember the story correctly, there had been some=
 fatalities after engine failures.

Students began to react negatively towards the airplane and it was causing =
problems in their training.


Finally, after failing to convince them that it wasn't an issue, one of the=
 instructors took the airplane up in the pattern, killed an engine and roll=
ed the airplane over and and over again in the pattern.


I don't suggest doing' anything as radical as rolling an Legacy with the ca=
nopy open, but before we get all excited about the dangers of the Legacy an=
d loosing confidence and spending a bunch and time and money fix ing a prob=
lem that may not exist, we really need to gather data, real hard data.


Thanks
Kevin