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Old May 22nd 13, 12:39 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Tom Gardner[_2_]
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Default Almost perfect payout winch launch.

Bill D wrote:
On Tuesday, May 21, 2013 5:20:21 PM UTC-6, Frank Whiteley wrote:

http://framework.latimes.com/2013/05...hed-sailplane/


Bad Photoshop job. You can see the real rope going past the horse to something out of the frame that's really launching the glider. However, it would have to be a gentile something - that's a Baby Albatross with a, IIRC, 65mph Vne.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86rOfjhsIIM