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My As1 is open cockpit with a bubble shaped windshield. The airflow flows over the curved bubble shape and goes right down the back of my neck. Any speed over 110 the air really buffets around my shoulders. If I fly somewhere for an hour plus, I feel like I have been on a motorcycle doing 120 for hours. All this time I have just thought it was the nature of the beast until the guy in the hangar across from me just purchased a Starduster 1. His windshield is not a bubble shape, but is made from a flat piece of plexiglass. It wraps around the cockpit, but the sloped back straight front looks like it would give the airflow a ramp effect and blow up and over his head. He says he gets NO air down his neck or buffet around his shoulders. I realize that upper wing shape and gabanes will have a different effect on airflow depending on the plane, but it sure would be nice to not get beat up.
Anyone have experience with different shape windshields? It would be a lot of work to change the windshield and then find out that it would make no difference on this plane.
Anyone have experience with different shape windshields? It would be a lot of work to change the windshield and then find out that it would make no difference on this plane.
