>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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