I painted the inside of mine silver and put it on with screws. (just in case)
Still as good as new after a summer of flying. Just sayin'.. Brian
ORIGINAL: grosbeak
The cockpit of my Pulse 125 is a convenient access point for the servo leads in the inverted tray just beneath it...
... so I would like to retain access if possible.
However, the canopy provided with this plane is the glue-on type. I've set the canopy on the airframe before and it flares outward at the bottom edge - that would have to be corrected (somehow).
I've thought of...
- trying to reform the canopy edges inward with a heat gun, but the compound curves may make that difficult to do by hand.
- attaching the canopy along the bottom with servo mounting screws, but I'm worried that the flared bottom edge would cause a scalloped effect.
- painting the inside of the bottom edge of the canopy with magnetic paint and embedding small rare-earth magnets along the rim of the cockpit but I'm not sure it would be secure at speed - and there might still be a scalloped effect.
Do you have another suggestion - I'd love to hear it!