heck that sounds like a good idea. wasn't there a time that engineers
would
tow a plane behind a ground vehicle to see if it would fly?

sounds like a way to avoid risking getting hurt if some design flaw comes
up. make sure to sandbag for CG!


I don't recall hearing of that, except for launching gliders. But a BD-5
was pushed along on a boom ahead of a pick-up truck as a sort of poor man's
true motion simulator. I believe that something similar may have been done
with another design as well--possibly one of Rutan's.