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where?....just off the ground
..what?......something that I had a nightmare about recently!
The PIC looks as if he's just come back from a bank robbery & the guy at the back looks as if he has just spotted the cops!
Just teasing. I gather that is a chute recovery system on that flying 'thing'?
CW
..what?......something that I had a nightmare about recently!The PIC looks as if he's just come back from a bank robbery & the guy at the back looks as if he has just spotted the cops!
Just teasing. I gather that is a chute recovery system on that flying 'thing'?
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CW You are a funny fellow!
I wish OK the above pic is a hang glider tug...... they launch the HG from a trolley and he gets towed up just like a glider. The stick and rudder skills of the "bank robber" are pretty good too! During Tug ops I have not seen the pax. Me thinks you were at ILW last weekend
Pics above, CC almost gets the gong!
I wish OK the above pic is a hang glider tug...... they launch the HG from a trolley and he gets towed up just like a glider. The stick and rudder skills of the "bank robber" are pretty good too! During Tug ops I have not seen the pax. Me thinks you were at ILW last weekend
Pics above, CC almost gets the gong!
Wittman tailwind = Correct
Deathrap almost ..... Drifter
Bo parked next to a craft class origamy project
Savanah
Varieze (sp?) Correct, not sure which model
Deathrap almost ..... Drifter
Bo parked next to a craft class origamy project
SavanahVarieze (sp?) Correct, not sure which model
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I wish et al,
Look in the background of the picture, to the left behind the tail of the hang glider tug: Does anyone know what the old fuselage next to the fuel tank is.
ABX
Look in the background of the picture, to the left behind the tail of the hang glider tug: Does anyone know what the old fuselage next to the fuel tank is.
ABX
CW, yep, a recovery chute.
Jaba, very good skills, including landing and stopping in the pit he has just passed. Don't know about his captain skills though, his passenger fell out a few minutes later
ILW? POPS.
ABX, would imagine it was a 182.
Jaba, very good skills, including landing and stopping in the pit he has just passed. Don't know about his captain skills though, his passenger fell out a few minutes later
ILW? POPS.
ABX, would imagine it was a 182.
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Chuckles wins the cigar! Guari it is. He probably landed there a few hundred times!
OK, now a really easy one. Capt Fathom has the first guess!
Guari it is. He probably landed there a few hundred times!OK, now a really easy one. Capt Fathom has the first guess!
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jaba you mean to tell me that a 'thing' not much better looking than a hanglider itself actually pulls hangliders up? Hell talk about the cart pulling the donkey!
I have towed up model gliders before with large R/C planes & we always attached the glider to the CofG point on the tow plane because if connected to the tail the towing model was almost uncontrollable. I see the attach point is at the rear of that 'thing' that's not much bigger than a 1/3 scale tug anyway!
Anyway would be amazing to see that in action, kind of brings a whole new meaning to 'tap dancing' on the rudder pedals hey!
As a foot note I gather that wearing shorts during flight is ok 'cause you don't have much in the way of 'intruding' bugs up that way?
CW
I have towed up model gliders before with large R/C planes & we always attached the glider to the CofG point on the tow plane because if connected to the tail the towing model was almost uncontrollable. I see the attach point is at the rear of that 'thing' that's not much bigger than a 1/3 scale tug anyway!
Anyway would be amazing to see that in action, kind of brings a whole new meaning to 'tap dancing' on the rudder pedals hey!
As a foot note I gather that wearing shorts during flight is ok 'cause you don't have much in the way of 'intruding' bugs up that way?
CW
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There ya go Capt Fathom. You finally got one!! Chuckles, is he allowed back on the island now?
Right, now where's this?
Right, now where's this?
Silly Old Git
Wheres this
New strip
The first balus to land onnit
Hint, 1971 thunk its KRD captin tin at the helm somewhere in the Erave Kutubu area
this will bugger even chuckles
New strip
The first balus to land onnit
Hint, 1971 thunk its KRD captin tin at the helm somewhere in the Erave Kutubu area
this will bugger even chuckles