Hi All

Unfortunately just another post about the Dragon Canopy issues, just for Peoples currently with Dragons.
I have one of the latest versions of teh dragon which is an excellent flyer, but feel there is a need to possibly identify a small issue again with these issues with the canopy. This i not designed to drag down Xtreme again as has happened in other posts, purely just to help identify issues so that they don't end up in disaster.

I have the LAtest canopy and nose section with the two locator pins in teh side of teh canopy rails as well as teh2 front pins as well.

The last flight i had the canopy still tore off and destroyed itself and damaged the tail.
Upon inspection found that the join between the nose section and the fuse has 4 mounting screws that hold it on and once pressure was applied to the nose in a downward mannd it allowed the join to open up sufficiently enough for the Canopy pin to undo.

Fix is simple, just add another row of bolts and locknuts , washers to the top rail holding the nose sevtion to the fuse.
There is now no movement in this area whatsoever.

Hope this saves someone elses issues before it happens.
All in all an excellent flying jet.

thanx for sharing [sm=thumbup.gif]
please upload photos of the mod!

cheers

I just used 3M 8115 panel bonding adhesive and glued the front section to the aft section plus used the existing 4 screws. It totally changed the way that the jet flys (in a good way). I too had lost a canopy in flight and had numerous other issues and this seemed to solve all the problems. FWIW.

Jim