Aircraft Carrier Tow - just remembered, honest, I've
seen the photo's.

At 09:00 27 December 2004, Mike Lindsay wrote:
In article , Shawn writes
OscarCVox wrote:
OK, I'll bite: name 10 (listing different makes of
tow vehicles or of tow
planes does not count)


Hmm I will try
Autotow
reverse pully auto tow
Winch
winch with winch retrieve
Bungey
Shoulder launch
aerotow
Horse tow ( I know it sounds daft but I believe that
they used a horse and a
tow rope at Dunstable pre war)

Now i am stuck. Any others?


Balloon drop. Seen it for hang gliders
Helicopter drop (tail first-done in airshows)
Rocket launch
Aircraft drop-like Space Ship 1, X-n
Pay-out winch
Catapult? (How much altitude could you get off the
deck of a carrier?)

Gravity rope launch. AFAIK this has never been tried.

You need a disused mine shaft at one end of the runway,
you set up a
great big pulley over it. You run a cable from the
other end of the
runway, over the pulley and attach it to a weight.

Yo let the weight go and as it falls it pulls the glider
into the air.
Then you heave the weight up again.

There is a club in the west of England that has several
disused tin
mines nearby. Hmm.

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Mike Lindsay