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CFECO · 10-16-2011, 01:09 PM

Small aircraft "glass", is actually just a "plastic", usually Plexiglass or Lexan. Even F-16 canopies are not glass, and bending with a torch, I think would not work. It takes a LOT of heat to melt glass, try melting a bottle in a campfire.

10-16-2011, 01:09 PM	#152 (permalink)
CFECO CFECO Join Date: May 2008 Location: Vail, AZ. Posts: 552 X-Car - '11 Homemade 2+2 Velbly1 - '17 Toyota Camery XSE 90 day: 29 mpg (US) Velbly2 - '13 Toyota Tundra 90 day: 18.03 mpg (US) Thanks: 174 Thanked 60 Times in 56 Posts	Small aircraft "glass", is actually just a "plastic", usually Plexiglass or Lexan. Even F-16 canopies are not glass, and bending with a torch, I think would not work. It takes a LOT of heat to melt glass, try melting a bottle in a campfire.