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Subject: Europa-List: emergency exits [was: Re: Jos Okhuisen]
From: Rowland & Wilma Carson <rowil@clara.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:20:13


>Regarding the RV that flipped on to its back at Fishburn recently, 
>the pilot commented that he would have preferred to have had a small 
>2lb axe to have been able to get out. It was the rescuers that 
>enabled exit through the broken canopy. He considered that the small 
>"lifesaver" hammers were a complete waste of time.

Duncan - sorry to be so late responding to this - your mail was 
timestamped as 1988 which meant it was hidden behind a few thousand 
others in my mailbox; looks like you need to fix the date & time 
(and-or the keep-alive battery) on your machine.

The lifesaver hammers are intended to break safety glass as found in 
cars; they are not designed to be effective on the acrylic 
transparencies typically found in light aeroplanes. The best way to 
break an acrylic window is to try drilling a hole in it and fitting a 
rivet!

regards

Rowland
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