View Single Post
  #7  
Old November 22nd 11, 09:26 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Tony[_5_]
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 1,965
Default New type of Launch Method? Video

On Nov 22, 3:11*pm, tstock wrote:
On Nov 22, 10:30*am, JohnDeRosa wrote:

There is aero, auto, winch, bungie and slope/cliff launch methods.


Now we can add ... being dropped from a BALLOON? *Would *YOU* do
this?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeJ0UFOj_WQ


- John


Hmm, well I didn't see anyone actually IN the glider, nor any movement
of the control surfaces... maybe just transporting?


I can see the ailerons deflecting right at lift off. pilot trying as
hard as he can to level the wings.