I got the canopy cut away tonight. I marked the cut lines and carefully went at it with two hack saw blades taped together. The two blades will give me close to the desired cut width to allow for capping each end of the canopy with 1/16" ply. That way, I shouldn't have to sand or remove much more material to make everything fit back together once the 1/16" caps are in place.

*confusing part starts here***
I wanted to use three pins for the front attachment of the canopy. I will use a hatch latch at the rear (install later). I temporarily set the front faces together with the canopy in place. I carefully removed them without displacing them from one another and drilled three holes through. I applied tape to each of the mating faces and inserted short wood dowels in the holes (to keep the pieces aligned). I applied polyurethane glue to the foam faces and carefully assembled with the ply faces (pinned) back on the fuselage. I then, used the tape (between ply faces) to strap one ply face to the canopy, and one to the front fuse deck. With tape in place and holding each face to its respective part of the airplane, I could remove the canopy (very carefully, so as not to move the ply front facing) and add more tape for curing. Don't forget to remove the temporary pins...I will insert better fitting c.f. pins later.

See next post for more pics on this..........


-mark