4 Gliders towed by one towplane -picture-

Specs for the Zlin 137t agro turbo:

http://www.glider-towing.sk/aircraft.html

At 02:18 27 December 2005, wrote:

Could the photograph be a fake ? The wingspan of the
tow plane appears
to be almost that of the gliders'. What kind of tow
plane is this, and
what it its actual wingspan ?

Cheers, Charles

What every towpilot want(ed) for Christmas... ;-)

No mention of air conditioning, but room for the "mechanic" in the back
suggests help will be close at hand...

One fellow I know used to fly turbine Beech 18's, and noted that when
he flew, he logged:
Multiengine
Turbine
Complex
Retractable
High Performance
Taildragger

in his logbook. This aircraft appears to satisfy all but two of those
categories.

I'm guessing that this tug could launch the entire contest for the 1-26
Championships, given enough rope. Well, maybe it would take two
tows...

While it didn't have a turbine or room for the mechanic (unless you
count the chemical hopper), in '94 the Lake Elsinore Soaring Club
acquired a similar "Sky Shark," referred to locally as "Jaws." I had
the privilege (?) of flying it from East Coast to West Coast in
November of '94...only one leg had a tailwind. The rest of the trip
was like flying on a motocross track...

http://www.soarelsinore.org/jaws.gif

-Pete
#309 and former tug pilot


Jeffrey Banks wrote:
Specs for the Zlin 137t agro turbo:

In article .com,
"309" wrote:

What every towpilot want(ed) for Christmas... ;-)

You'd want to have a busy operation otherwise the stop/start engine
cycles would kill you.

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