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On Oct 19, 9:48*am, Tony wrote:
On Oct 19, 8:24*am, JS wrote: Contact Garret or Boyd Willat. They used one of those "toy haulers" to fit a Nimbus 3 and a Discus. A bit on the gigantic side... Jim Jim, I've talked with Garrett and seen pictures of their party wagon. *Not sure I'm ready for that kind of upgrade. *I've got an old beater 1994 GMC 2 wheel drive V6 pickup with 256,000 miles on it that I would like to keep for now for a tow vehicle. *Not ready to upgrade a super heavy duty diesel gas guzzler. Martin - I'm having trouble visualizing what you typed. *Perhaps its just too early. *The fuselage is ~20-22 ft long. *Each wing is about 18 or 19 ft long. I've got a friend with a Duster and because of its massive fixed center section the solution for his trailer was to lay the wings flat on the floor. *I'm wondering if maybe a good solution for the double Cherokee trailer would be two racks for the 4 wings on the floor. *one wing would go root first the other tip first. *then the fuselages in, one nose first the other tail first. *This could potentially minimize trailer width. A couple thoughts for what they might be worth(internet toilet paper). Picture a wing dolly kinda like most trailers use but set up to accept roots of 2 wings. This way the wings could be put very close together, you don't need double tracks, etc. Yep- it might take 2 people working together to go in and out, but so what. The wings for one glider go on the right. Second on the left. Assembly: Pull first fuselage which is tail forward in trailer out and position. Wings for that glider are on same side. Remove wings and rig. There may be a trick here if it matters which wing goes on first. Repeat for second glider. The glider that gets flown the most is the one that goes in second. Warning- old war story. My early mentor was Steve Bennis who was married to Ginny(now Ginny Schweizer). They used to go on safari to Texas with their panel truck and a flatbed trailer with two LK's on it. He said it was a lot of fun except they bioth had different ideas of where to fly some some retrieves were complicated. Sounds like you guys are having a lot of fun. Keep it up UH |
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