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Old November 18th 06, 06:32 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Andy Melville
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Default Methods of Launch

There is space in my log book for launching by helicopter...presum
ably taken vertically to a safe height and then 'dropped'?I
dont know anyone who has done this but I am sure someone
will have!?
At 00:06 18 November 2006,
wrote:

Robert Gaines wrote:
How many ways can a glider-sailplane be launched?
Winch
Autotow
Towplane
Gasoline engine self launch
Electric self launch
Off Back of 747
Belly of B-29
Bungee

How many more ways?


Motor-bunjee - favoured by some South Walians in the
late 1960s - not
always successful.