Mark, Dart Industries here in South Africa now has the worldwide rights to the Dragonfly and has contracted Acrylform who is also in South Africa to manufacture the canopies for them. I bought one from them a few months ago to replace my standard KR bubble. Cost is ZAR2850.00 including VAT. ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Langford <n5...@hiwaay.net> To: KRnet <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 2:46 AM Subject: Re: KR> Dragonfly Canopy
> Eric KelsheimerTo: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> > > > > Can anyone tell me how wide you can go with the fuselage using the > Dragonfly Canopy? There has to be a limit as to how far it can be distorted > and still work?< > > The Dragonfly canopy is very flexible. I guess where I'd start with that > question would be to find out the width of a Dragonfly airplane, and then > add about 4"-6" to that, depending on what you want the canopy to look like. > That will get you to at least 8" wider than a KR, which ought to be way more > than enough. I have no doubt that you could open it up to 60" wide, but it > would look stupid. My personal answer to that question is that it will go > plenty wide enough to look good and work fine, and wider than you'd need, > unless you and your passenger are huge, in which case, you are building the > wrong airplane. > > Last I heard these were only being made in Australia or somewhere, do maybe > you need to look at Pulsar canopies or something similar. There are plenty > of canopies out there that'll be as wide as you want. Take an RV for > example... > > Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama > see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford > email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html >
