Here's a short video of what I've been working on lately - setting up the operational canopy on a BVM F-100. Thanks to Bob Neal for the idea for how to make it work - he's built one on his Air Magic F15.
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~rhklenke/canopy_long.MPG
Please ignore the audio - I had the TV on the Discovery channel or something at the time
Bob