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Cockpit cowl question.

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Cub822

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I’m about to cut out the cockpit cowl per drawings. (S1)
Thinking about making a second “fair weather”
pattern with lower sides while I’m at it.
I don’t intend to have a canopy, nor do I intend to get too crazy into aerobatics.
For the sake of easier ingress/egress as well as increasing sight picture for a 0 time Pitts guy, how much of the cowl could be cut away without dealing with too much wind buffet or other I’ll effects?
Plans call for about 8” of cowl above the top longeron at lowest point of curve.
4” be asking for trouble?
I appreciate any thoughts or suggestions
Thanks,
Doug
 

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