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June 15th 15, 11:38 AM
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Near Vertical Takeoff
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. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org | 
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