SpazSinbad. Thank you for the PDFs. I have been trying to convince people that the first Vampire T11s had a canopy similar to the Mosquito with manual bailout. The trick with the Vampire 5 was to either turn it upside and trim forward but if it was all falling apart it was a case of put your foot on the stick, lose the canopy and unstrap.
The big advantage with the first T11s was that there was stacks of room to stow you bags when you went to the Smoke for a dirty weekend. On mine you had to use the ammo boxes.