You may of course be talking about a different incident, but if this is the
event I witnessed it should read like this:

Did you hear the story about the pilot who rigged his Kestrel, towed it to
the other side of the airfield where the launch point was that day, took a
launch, flew around for a while, landed and on the ground run the wings fell
off - no mainpin.

Stephen


"W.J. (Bill) Dean (U.K.)." wrote in message
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Did you hear the story about the pilot who rigged his Kestrel, towed it to
the other side of the airfield where the launch point was that day, just
as
he got there the wings fell off - no mainpin.

Very lucky the wind was not in the other direction, or the wings would
still
have been on when he reached the launch point.

W.J. (Bill) Dean (U.K.).
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"F.L. Whiteley" wrote in message
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"JJ Sinclair" wrote in message
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Frank wrote Maybe the tape and control linkages are _just_
enough........

OK, I'll buy the "tape" would be strong enough to do the job. Now,
when a bystander asks, "Is that tape all that holds the wings on?" we
can honestly say, "on the Kestrel, it is".

JJ Sinclair

Two of the control rods are pinned in the Slingsby Kestrel 19. Don't
know about the 17.

Frank