{"id":242,"date":"2012-11-01T14:58:20","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T21:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/?p=242"},"modified":"2012-11-20T10:04:29","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T17:04:29","slug":"canopy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/?p=242","title":{"rendered":"Canopy!"},"content":{"rendered":"

St. Roger, the patron saint of wayward aircraft bits delivered unto me a windscreen and canopy last night!<\/p>\n

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As you can see, it’s pretty rough.\u00a0 We figure it was either ejected or purposely damaged for whatever reason.\u00a0 It CAN be salvaged however.<\/p>\n

Finding a replacement glass section (lexan actually) is essentially impossible.\u00a0 That is ok however, because since I don’t have the part of the fuselage where the hinge mounted, I really can’t make it an articulating canopy anyway.<\/p>\n

What I’ll do is remove the broken lexan parts and then mount the canopy in the closed & locked position to the F-15.\u00a0 Without the forward canopy glass there, you can just step over the rail to get into the cockpit.<\/p>\n

The canopy is also bent a bit in the middle, but I’m sure I can straighten it out well enough to get it installed.\u00a0 I’ll have to fabricate a replacement trim strip as the one on the left is broken where the canopy is bent.<\/p>\n

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The good news is that the mounts for the compass and lock\/shoot lights are still in place.\u00a0 The side handles are present as well.\u00a0 I can’t wait to get this thing fixed and installed!\u00a0 It’s gonna look kind of odd without the forward glass, but who cares!<\/p>\n

Here’s a shot of the new windscreen:<\/p>\n

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The windscreen has a few gouges in it, but it’s actually in a lot better shape than the A model windscreen that came with the cockpit when I originally got it.\u00a0 I’m going to test some Novus polish I have to see how well it works fixing some of the lighter scratches.\u00a0 I think Novus also makes a fill that will handle the deeper gouges.<\/p>\n

[Update: 20Nov12]<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thanks to Matt who sent me a link to a Craigslist ad for an F-15 canopy, it looks like I may get it.\u00a0 I’m working on making arrangements with the seller right now.\u00a0 How’s that for cool? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I also got the images resized thanks to a new plugin I found for WordPress called ImagePro.<\/p>\n

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St. Roger, the patron saint of wayward aircraft bits delivered unto me a windscreen and canopy last night!   As you can see, it’s pretty rough.\u00a0 We figure it was either ejected or purposely damaged for whatever reason.\u00a0 It CAN be salvaged however. Finding a replacement glass section (lexan actually) is essentially impossible.\u00a0 That is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248,"href":"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}