Off The Wall Questions!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry youngster, it was WW2.


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On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 22:00:39 GMT, "Cy Galley"
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I believe I saw it in an issue of Popular Science being used by the Army
Air Corp during THE WAR.

Korean war perhaps? Nate Saint was in the US Airforce in the second
world war, and apparently perfected the technique in the early
fifties.

bowman wrote:

Matt Whiting wrote:

Maybe I'm not getting the full picture here, but it seems at first blush
that this would require the Cub to be able to fly a zero radius turn.

Picture a conic section with the bucket at the vertex and the rope
describing the generatrices.

If the pilot's willing to try a stunt like this one, his generatrices
must be huge!

Mark Hickey

Well, I was only 12 when I read the book.
Heck, I can't even remember the title now...

Richard

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Don't THINK that was the first use, but it was definitely an early
use. The bucket could get into terrain you would never land a plane
in, and unteathered drops were too easy to lose.

The date I have here for Paul Beauchamp Legg in ZK-ARJ at the Hokitika
Air Pageant is Dec 11th 1960.

There's about a half-A4-page description in his book "West Coast
Memories"... taking off with 1500' of rope laid out on the runway ahead,
circling at 1000' and getting the bottom end securely attached to the
ground, and then attempting to slide a dummy down the rope, controlling
its speed by tension on the rope. Its not stated, but no doubt the
airshow crowd was told it was a real person descending the rope. Except
the dummy got snagged and the rope and dummy had to be cut away. He says
in the book that he'd done it successfully many times before.

On 13 Oct 2005 20:45:18 -0700, "Richard Lamb"
wrote:

Well, I was only 12 when I read the book.
Heck, I can't even remember the title now...

Richard

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