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May 12th 20, 09:03 PM
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tow vehicles?
On Sunday, 10 May 2020 17:25:28 UTC-6, Stephen Coan wrote:
What do you think is the best tow vehicle for a single place glass sailplane? What is the smallest vehicle one can safely tow with? FWIW I towed a Grob 103 "concrete swan" about 2000 miles behind a light long-bed pickup truck (2L 4-cyl Mitsubishi). Scared the crap out of myself with one fishtailing incident but otherwise ok. Like they say, don't look in the mirror, it doesn't help and will only scare you. One good piece of advice was that you should try and use a vehicle with a short rear overhang - long wheelbase, short overhang is better. Obviously a long bed truck has a long overhang... 
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