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MikeyFIN

11-15-2011 09:10 AM

Getting offtopic.

Quote:

Originally Posted by BUIZILLA (Post 3550107)

I spent several years as an aircraft mechanic at MIA, and worked flightline damage repairs daily, and 3 or 4 direct runway crashes, I never saw a windscreen that *tore* away like these did, we did have heavy hail and bird damage, but not a *tear* situation...

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Gripenland

11-15-2011 09:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BUIZILLA (Post 3550107)

I guess my basic simple question is > does the current offshore sanction bodies have a windscreen spec for thickness/composition/material for open or enclosed cockpits?

There are many organisations and there fore many specs:
Here are a few:

WPPA Class 1 and X-cat: Polycarbonate min 12 mm
UIM 3C: Polycarbonate or similar, tandem min 7.9 mm side-by-side min 9.5 mm
LUCAS OIL DRAG BOAT RACING SERIES: Polycarbonate min 0.5" before hot forming

MikeyFIN

11-15-2011 09:18 AM

Request to all..lets take the tech stuff to appropriate thread...

http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/g...struction.html

MikeyFIN

11-15-2011 09:21 AM

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Originally Posted by thirdchildhood (Post 3550122)

"Take your question direct to Skater. The general internet public won't know the answer."

Boat racers ain't the general internet public...WE THINK!

DareDevil

11-15-2011 10:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MikeyFIN (Post 3550152)

Boat racers ain't the general internet public...WE THINK!

SO U ARE !!!!!

Raylar

11-15-2011 09:13 PM

Excuse my possible ignorance here as I am not a plastics expert. Why are they not using Lexan on the canopy windows instead of polycarbonate?? There must be some reason I am unaware of?

Best Regards,
Ray @ Raylar

AO31	11-15-2011 09:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Raylar (Post 3550669)

Lexan IS polycarbonate.

Raylar

11-15-2011 10:04 PM

Told you I wasn't a plastics expert. I learn something new almost every day!

Best Regards,
Ray @ Raylar:grinser010:

HabanaJoe

11-15-2011 10:28 PM

[QUOTE=MikeyFIN;3550130]The Stuffs are plus violent rollovers are high G impacts up to 25G was measured for example at Casiraghis crash.

Yes they are somewhat common. Bobby Saccenti had one for example in the Apache cat back in the day.
Do not recall the death causes of Mark Lavin and Stefano Casiraghi but wouldn' t count it out.QUOTE]

Probably doesn't matter much but I recall Casiraghi's cat the old KAPPA as a stand-up boat not a sit down. The cockpit had a sling in it where you rested your rear end and kind of swung in it with feet on the ground. If it was rough you could use that sling and stand behind it so when you stood your legs couldn't kick out front. Don't know for a fact but recall talk that was how he was in the boat so when it stuffed it could not get thrown out easily, kind of folded around the sling where as the co-pilot was thrown out of the boat - again 20 years ago?

thirdchildhood

11-16-2011 07:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MikeyFIN (Post 3550152)

Boat racers ain't the general internet public...WE THINK!

I know! That quote about the "general internet public" was directly from the person who posted the question. He told me to "call Peter at Skater" because the "general internet public won't know"! lol :)

Thanks again for the pics and for not watermarking them.
I'm going to print the whole sequence on 8x10 photo paper as soon as I get more ink. :)

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