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gengrumpy

Joined: 07 May 2013
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Location: Tullahoma, TN

Posted: Sun May 31, 2015 5:01 pm Post subject: Canopy

I am about to order a canopy from Todd’s canopies for my RV8.



If you have one of his canopies, please let me know your opinion of the canopy and of the customer support.



Thanks - grumpy



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Don Patrick

Joined: 21 Feb 2010
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Location: Oshawa

Posted: Sun May 31, 2015 7:04 pm Post subject: Canopy

I have one and the skirts from Van's need a lot of work.  I cracked my first one and Todd took care of me....top notch customer service!



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Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2015 7:41 am Post subject: Canopy

Ditto.  go for it!



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Matt Dralle
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Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2015 7:49 am Post subject: Canopy

At 05:58 PM 5/31/2015 Sunday, you wrote:

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I am about to order a canopy from Todd’s canopies for my RV8.



If you have one of his canopies, please let me know your opinion of the canopy and of the customer support.



Thanks - grumpy


	




IMHO, the Todd's RV-8 canopy's have an odd look.  They are kind of humped about  1/3 of the way back and give the plane kind of a cartoon look.  The Van's stock canopy is more even in the slope and much more P-51 like.  I do like the fact that Todd's canopies are available in darker tint, but I just couldn't get past the aesthetics of them.



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gengrumpy

Joined: 07 May 2013
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Location: Tullahoma, TN

Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2015 8:18 am Post subject: Canopy

Thanks, Matt.  There is one on an 8 here with the tint, and I certainly have not noticed any humped look to it, and the tint is nice!

How’s your bird coming along?

About to reassemble the engine we’re overhauling, wings arrived a couple of weeks ago, and prop arrived today.  After the canopy, what remains are exhaust and avionics … of course and all the labor involved to do all the finish up work 😕

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		   On Jun 1, 2015, at 10:45 AM, Matt Dralle <dralle(at)matronics.com> wrote:

 At 05:58 PM 5/31/2015 Sunday, you wrote:

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> I am about to order a canopy from Toddâs canopies for my RV8.

> 

> If you have one of his canopies, please let me know your opinion of the canopy and of the customer support.

> 

> Thanks - grumpy

 IMHO, the Todd's RV-8 canopy's have an odd look.  They are kind of humped about  1/3 of the way back and give the plane kind of a cartoon look.  The Van's stock canopy is more even in the slope and much more P-51 like.  I do like the fact that Todd's canopies are available in darker tint, but I just couldn't get past the aesthetics of them.

 $.02

 Matt

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 Matt's Livermore Airport Live ATC Stream!

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 Airport.  Includes both Tower and Ground transmissions.  Archives too!

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