On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 20:01:05 -0600, Dan Marotta wrote:

Wow!!! I'd love to try that!

On 6/14/2015 7:36 PM, GM wrote:
I can do that in my glider, though not for quite as long...
Yes you can! Do a winch launch on one of those specially modified
European winches that use over 11,000ft of line, hold that climb for 2
minutes and end up at over 4,500ft. I bet the jet cannot do that!
Uli

Here's a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VlRd9-wxQI

Note that the instruments are metric: climb rate in m/s, height in m,
airspeed in kph.



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