GM wrote:
Has anybody ever tried to launch a glider purely by gravity without the
aid of any other means? Ok - pushing it over a cliff would be one way.
I am more thinking of a steep incline, which a glider could just roll
down, i.e. a slow glider flying and a steep straight mountain road.

Uli Neumann


Cloyd Artman - mid 1930's. Washington state in (on) a primary
(built/modified from plans in a magazine [common stuff in the U.S. back
then]) from a greased tilting board atop a (working from memory from
older "Soaring" magazines) cut down pickup truck. Amazing young man
who lost his life ca. 1937 when a wing fitting failed on the
university-designed 2-seater he and a college classmate were flying as
undergraduates. Perhaps a photo of his greased board rig might be the
one alluded to in a previous post.

Regards,
Bob W.