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Old October 2nd 16, 03:33 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Andreas Maurer
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Default TV Ad featuring Klaus Ohlmann and an Antares 23E

On Fri, 30 Sep 2016 09:43:53 -0600, Dan Marotta
wrote:

It did not look to me like a gravity launch would have worked at the
airport in the commercial considering how close to the end of the runway
the glider released the rope and how hard (apparently) the car was
trying to pull. Still it was a heart-pounding video...


The hardest part was to keep the Antares on the ground as long as
possible (they were using negative flap settings to achieve that).

With an un-faked launch it would have been airborne within a couple of
hundred feet.