I did not witness the incident which I related, I am not sure if it is just
an urban legend.

If you witnessed yours you are ahead of me. Are you willing to tell us
where and when?

There is not much to tape on a Slingsby Kestrel 19, I owned one once.

W.J. (Bill) Dean (U.K.).
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"Stephen Cook" ] wrote in message
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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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