A jammed canopy and aircraft on fire.
I once smashed a windscreen in a Jabiru and they are roughly the same thickness as a side window. There's no way you'd ever get it out with anything other than a safety hammer or hammer and even with that you'd never get out of it within a decent timeframe. Luckily it's a high wing and you hopefully won't need to.
I do seem to recall that when Steve Maltby went in off Hammo in the Cirrus SR22 he used the Cirrus Safety hammer to smash out of the rear window.
I do seem to recall that when Steve Maltby went in off Hammo in the Cirrus SR22 he used the Cirrus Safety hammer to smash out of the rear window.
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all the Spitfires I flew (Mks I,II,IX,XIV, XVI and XXII)
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Pinky the Pilot,
The Mark I ! - it was the lightest, and therefore the nicest, of them all. Later, post-war, the XVI (a IX with the "Packard Merlin") was (with the IX) reckoned the best performer of all the Merlin Spitfires - but the Mk. I was the most fun to fly IMHO. I did not like the Griffon Spits (XIV and XXII), but then only had a few hours on them.
No tales of derring-do, I'm afraid. From finishing my OTU on them in summer '42, I was sent out to India (where there were no Spitfires then), and was 'shanghai'd' onto the Vultee Vengeance. Seven years later, I returned to the RAF, and flew the XVI on 20 Sqn '50-'51 - about the time they were retired.
Danny42C.
The Mark I ! - it was the lightest, and therefore the nicest, of them all. Later, post-war, the XVI (a IX with the "Packard Merlin") was (with the IX) reckoned the best performer of all the Merlin Spitfires - but the Mk. I was the most fun to fly IMHO. I did not like the Griffon Spits (XIV and XXII), but then only had a few hours on them.
No tales of derring-do, I'm afraid. From finishing my OTU on them in summer '42, I was sent out to India (where there were no Spitfires then), and was 'shanghai'd' onto the Vultee Vengeance. Seven years later, I returned to the RAF, and flew the XVI on 20 Sqn '50-'51 - about the time they were retired.
Danny42C.
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Thanks for that Danny42C.
Re the Griffon powered Spits; From what I have read about them, not too many Pilots did like them.
And apparently a few came to grief on their first T/O in them when they wound on the rudder trim the wrong way!
Re the Griffon powered Spits; From what I have read about them, not too many Pilots did like them.
And apparently a few came to grief on their first T/O in them when they wound on the rudder trim the wrong way!
Folks,
A welders chipping hammer makes a great canopy breaker tool, cheap, cheerful and very effective.
A welders chipping hammer makes a great canopy breaker tool, cheap, cheerful and very effective.
