X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:27:56 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.121] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.2) with ESMTP id 2860982 for lml@lancaironline.net; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:19:09 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=75.180.132.121; envelope-from=sreeves@sc.rr.com Received: from Steve-Laptop.sc.rr.com ([66.57.208.79]) by cdptpa-omta05.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20080418021832.MTLP5568.cdptpa-omta05.mail.rr.com@Steve-Laptop.sc.rr.com> for ; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:18:32 +0000 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 X-Original-Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:18:13 -0400 X-Original-To: "Lancair Mailing List" From: Steve Reeves Subject: Re: [LML] Re: Legacy crash - speculation In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Original-Message-Id: <20080418021832.MTLP5568.cdptpa-omta05.mail.rr.com@Steve-Laptop.sc.rr.com> I tend to agree. I know my instructor, when we were doing instrument training in a Cheetah, would tell me to slide the canopy back, stick your shoe in it (or something similar) and slide it back onto whatever you were cramming into it. Steve t 09:46 PM 4/17/2008, you wrote: >Possibly he knew he was going down and opened the canopy to assure >he could get out after the crash? No one knows I guess. My >instructors taught me that 25 years ago. Tighten the seatbelts, >crack open the door. Sad news indeed. I saw the plane the day >before and it was a beauty. >