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From: "Bill & Sue" <harrelson@erols.com>
To: <lancair.list@olsusa.com>
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Subject: Re: Canopy Sealing - 320
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 14:20:15 -0500
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Greyhawk, Ed, Feathers, Larry, Grease, John & All,

I made my canopy overlap the fuselage by about an inch on the outside AND
the inside. This give me a channel that grips the longeron area firmly. This
keeps the "ballooning" that Greyhawk talks about down to near zero and helps
seal the canopy sides. I have a double "p" strip on all four sides of the
canopy bottom. On the rollover the "p" strip extends down as far as possible
before it shears. From that point down, I put the cloth side of a velcro
strip on that slides easily instead of shearing. I have absolutely no
leakage in the canopy at all.  (Even at Grease and Hollis beating high
speeds!)

On another subject,
> "Why can't you?  It is your airplane, and you are the only renter, no
> commercial operations are taking place...
>  Plenty of experimentals are owned by corporations."
John,  The feds never mention "commercial operation". They do mention
"compensation" or hire. They have an EXTREMELY wide definition of what
constitutes "compensation".  If you pay another entity to use the airplane,
you are "compensating" them. It doesn't have to be for profit. There is a
whole lot of  legal precident with this sort of stuff , all supporting the
fed's viewpoint. My strong suspision is that if you went up against the feds
with this, you'd loose. (We usually do when we go up against them on just
about anything). Remember, they get to be investigator, prosecutor, and
judge. They rarely loose cases, even when they're wrong.

Bill
harrelson@erols.com
N5ZQ


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