gzornenplatz
Your post re the upside down tailplane brings reminiscences of an experience I had whilst flying gliders. On a fairly windy day, I was asked to Hangar fly the old ASK7. The aircraft sat with tyres on wingtip and tail to counter the wind gusts. The lads helping me launch said no probs, we will get them off, so I strapped in. The ride up the winch launch was definitely different, and I needed a disturbing amount of forward elevator to keep it level. It wasn't beyond control though, so I floated around, and then landed by the hangar. You've got it, the lads at launch assumed that the two tyres on the tailplane would drop off on launch, someone had secured them with a rope. They were still there when I landed. I never got airborne after that, without personally removing any such clutter..
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