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Old March 14th 20, 12:51 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Dave Walsh[_2_]
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At 14:53 08 March 2020, wrote:
On Saturday, March 7, 2020 at 10:20:05 AM UTC-6, Emir Sherbi

wrote:
Actually, that is not the worst of the ideas. Safer than other

ideas for
sure.
Mixed with the idea of the compound pulley and truck the hole

does not
need to be too deep

As I mentioned before, anyone heard of the Wright Brothers and

their 1903
Flyer? Pretty quick acceleration to flight speed over a short

distance.

Well as it's raining: the idea of a (large) hole in the ground with
high speed wire motion around it on an active airfield doesn't seem
to have much going for it. Be an interesting 'Health & Safety'
problem. It would be a non starter in the UK - it would be full of
water by now.