Original Posted By: Michael D Cuy
>I'm curious, why did you need a face mask ? Does your airplane not have >a wind screen ? Or are you getting wind blast forced into the cockpit >comming from the bottom of the wing above ?>Bob- I do have Lexan windscreens and believe me I had my facestuck right up behind that sucker. I'm sure you could go withoutthe face mask but when you need to turn your head and move aroundthe wind will get you. (or when you make an uncoordinated turn andthe slipstream lets you know. That's why I don't even have a ball on myinst. panel.)>I remember readind that the fighter pilots from the 1930's era had a >leather apron that went from above their shoulders, over the open >cockpit, and then (I think) under the insterment panel. This was said to >keep the pilot out of the wind, and was much warmer. >Kind of like a tonnu cover for the back of a pick-up truck.That sounds like an excellent idea ! Mike C. >ocb>>>>From steve(at)byu.edu Mon Jan 4 13:18:21 1999>>Received: from adena.byu.edu ("port 2705"@adena.byu.edu >[128.187.22.180])>> by EMAIL1.BYU.EDU (PMDF V5.2-29 #31181)>> with ESMTP id for >oilcanbob(at)hotmail.com;>>Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 16:15:12 -0500>>From: Michael D Cuy >>Subject: 8.5 F Degrees>>Sender: Maiser(at)adena.byu.edu>>To: Pietenpol Discussion >>Errors-to: Steve(at)byu.edu>>Reply-to: Pietenpol Discussion >>Message-id: >>MIME-version: 1.0>>X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 (via Mercury MTS >v1.44 (NDS))>> (via Mercury MTS v1.44 (NDS))>>Comments: Originally To: "Pietenpol Discussion" >>X-Listname: >>>>I got home New Year's Day from the airport and my thermometer>>read 8.5 degrees Fahrenheit. Other than the temperature the day>>was perfect. Sunny, calm winds, a nice clean fresh blanket of >>snow making everything look pristine. I put on layers of clothes>>and a full face mask with an arctic type hat and the only thing that>>really got cold were my toes. (front cockpit cover was on)>>The flying was just gorgeous- you could see forever and there wasn't>>another plane in the sky ! (I was the only fool in the area !)>>I'm going to have to fix the tach or the tach cable though- one minute>>the tach was reading 2150 rpm and the next it was reading zero !>>I've got the 90 degree adapter on the tach so it might even be that.>>Guess it didn't like the cold too well. I'll bet this doesn't happen >to>>Ted B . in Naples, Florida !!>>>>Mike C. >>>>________________________________________________________________________________