My club looks to purchase 6 canopy covers for our club ships. Looking for heavy duty outdoor covers with very secure attachment and no flapping in strong wind. I have a very nice reinforced canvas cover with soft lining that came with my own glider but
I can't identify the manufacturer. Looking for something similar.
What do you recommend?
thx, JJ

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On Sunday, June 18, 2023 at 6:25:26 PM UTC-7, John Johnson wrote:

My club looks to purchase 6 canopy covers for our club ships. Looking for heavy duty outdoor covers with very secure attachment and no flapping in strong wind. I have a very nice reinforced canvas cover with soft lining that came with my own glider but

I can't identify the manufacturer. Looking for something similar.

What do you recommend?
thx, JJ

JJ

Sorry, can't give you a recommendation on who to use to make them, but do suggest you have whoever does it, sew in a spanwise, mid-chord pocket mid chord down the length of each wing cover to accept 6' long lengths of foam pipe insulation. The sleeve
should have openings every 6 feet to allow easy insertion/removal of the foam spoilers. The purpose should be obvious, we've seen gliders on the ramp "flying", tugging against their tie downs with "smooth" covers lifted up taught to create high lift
wings. And then the aftermath when they pull loose to smash into other valuable things.

bumper

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I second Bumper's recommendation on spoilers. I had a Cessna 180 tied out back in 2005 when Tropical Storm Katrina unexpectedly hung a sharp left, and became a Category 1 hurricane as it passed over Western Miami-Dade County. I had made spoilers for the
tops of my wings out of pool noodles slid over 1/2" x 10-foot electrical conduit. A buddy called me early the morning after the storm from the ramp to tell me that airplanes all around mine were flipped but mine was OK. A padded wood "wishbone" that
wraps the vertical stabilizer and rudder is also an important safety measure.

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On Sunday, June 18, 2023 at 9:25:26 PM UTC-4, John Johnson wrote:

My club looks to purchase 6 canopy covers for our club ships. Looking for heavy duty outdoor covers with very secure attachment and no flapping in strong wind. I have a very nice reinforced canvas cover with soft lining that came with my own glider but

I can't identify the manufacturer. Looking for something similar.

What do you recommend?
thx, JJ

JJ - what you are describing could be a 'Ridge Sewing' cover but I think Iris gave up making them a while ago. I had one of these for my Libelle.
Take a look at 'Vertigo Covers' from the UK. I think W&W is their rep for the US. I have a complete set of outdoor covers as well as a sliver Spandex 'Canopy Glove' for my Calif and they are holding up very well.

Uli
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On Monday, June 19, 2023 at 8:45:47 AM UTC-7, AS wrote:

On Sunday, June 18, 2023 at 9:25:26 PM UTC-4, John Johnson wrote:

My club looks to purchase 6 canopy covers for our club ships. Looking for heavy duty outdoor covers with very secure attachment and no flapping in strong wind. I have a very nice reinforced canvas cover with soft lining that came with my own glider

but I can't identify the manufacturer. Looking for something similar.

What do you recommend?
thx, JJ

JJ - what you are describing could be a 'Ridge Sewing' cover but I think Iris gave up making them a while ago. I had one of these for my Libelle.
Take a look at 'Vertigo Covers' from the UK. I think W&W is their rep for the US. I have a complete set of outdoor covers as well as a sliver Spandex 'Canopy Glove' for my Calif and they are holding up very well.

Uli
'AS'

https://aircraftcovers.com/model_pdf.php?p1=ASK

I've seen several of these covers, mostly on Stemmes, they fit well and are well made. They make them for many power planes and gliders.

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On 2023-06-18 20:25, John Johnson wrote:

My club looks to purchase 6 canopy covers for our club ships. Looking for heavy duty outdoor covers with very secure attachment and no flapping in strong wind. I have a very nice reinforced canvas cover with soft lining that came with my own glider

but I can't identify the manufacturer. Looking for something similar.

What do you recommend?
thx, JJ

I'm confused. Both the subject and the message body by the OP mention
"canopy covers", yet most of the replies refer to and provide advice
regarding full covers for the whole aircraft. Maybe that's what John
meant? And, after all, full covers WILL include the canopy, right?

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I have a set of Bruce's covers (https://aircraftcovers.com/) which I like. Well made and I like the long zipper that starts at the top of the winglets and then zips all the way to the wing root. Makes deploying them easier than the type where you have
to slide the entire bulk of the cover onto the wing tip and then push to the root.

As to flapping the Bruce covers have a number of straps (6?) along the length that are used to take up some (all?) of the slack of the cover onto the wing. Will the straps prevent all flapping in all wind conditions? I doubt that any of the covers
would.

My $0.02.
John (OHM)

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On Monday, June 19, 2023 at 1:44:38 PM UTC-4, Tom BravoMike wrote:

On 2023-06-18 20:25, John Johnson wrote:

My club looks to purchase 6 canopy covers for our club ships. Looking for heavy duty outdoor covers with very secure attachment and no flapping in strong wind. I have a very nice reinforced canvas cover with soft lining that came with my own glider

but I can't identify the manufacturer. Looking for something similar.

What do you recommend?
thx, JJ

I'm confused. Both the subject and the message body by the OP mention "canopy covers", yet most of the replies refer to and provide advice regarding full covers for the whole aircraft. Maybe that's what John
meant? And, after all, full covers WILL include the canopy, right?

I have seen homegrown fiberglass shells that seal against the fuselage around the canopy without touching it. Great idea for a club ship, not something to take with you xc...

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On Monday, June 19, 2023 at 10:44:38 AM UTC-7, Tom BravoMike wrote:

On 2023-06-18 20:25, John Johnson wrote:

My club looks to purchase 6 canopy covers for our club ships. Looking for heavy duty outdoor covers with very secure attachment and no flapping in strong wind. I have a very nice reinforced canvas cover with soft lining that came with my own glider

but I can't identify the manufacturer. Looking for something similar.

What do you recommend?
thx, JJ

I'm confused. Both the subject and the message body by the OP mention "canopy covers", yet most of the replies refer to and provide advice regarding full covers for the whole aircraft. Maybe that's what John
meant? And, after all, full covers WILL include the canopy, right?

We are looking for just the canopy cover for our club's aircraft, but I do appreciate the discussion on full covers.

I have quote requests out to Bruce's and Jaxida. Jaxida has already responded overnight with a full quote for all 6 gliders but I've asked them to re-quote with their heavier Air Extreme 2-layer material.

On the W&W site, only the IMI cover looks closest to the type we are looking for - yet it appears relatively light weight. Our covers need to live on the gliders year-round under a shade structure so we are looking something tough that will hold up.
Anyone with experience with the IMI cover out there?

thx, JJ

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