On Friday, March 13, 2015 at 12:45:04 PM UTC-7, John Galloway wrote:
It might be a good idea to find a copy of Dick Johnson's flight test of
the original Nimbus 2 published in Soaring magazine. Unfortunately
it is omitted from the web.archive.org list of Dick Johnson articles.
He describes getting into into a very bad situation with an
uncontrollable pitch up on an autotow launch. He advised "I do not
recommend that pilots with less than several hundred recent flying
hours fly this beautiful but complex machine, particularly from
ground tow".


SSA members can access the Johnson review of the Nimbus II in the April, 1976 issue through the Soaring Magazine Archive.