Methods of Launch

"Frank Whiteley" wrote in message
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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?
Helicopter
Balloon
Foot (Woodstock option?)


I don't believe the Woodstock can be "foot launched."
http://members.aol.com/sparkstj/rim45.jpg
http://members.aol.com/woodglider/wander1.jpg

The "foot launched" sailplane designed by Jim Maupin is the Carbon Dragon.
http://www.sailplanedirectory.com/Pl...cfm?planeID=54
http://www.sailplanehomebuilders.com/arndt_dragon.jpg

Wayne
HP-14 "6F"
http://www.soaridaho.com/

Wayne Paul wrote:
"Frank Whiteley" wrote in message
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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?
Helicopter
Balloon
Foot (Woodstock option?)


I don't believe the Woodstock can be "foot launched."
http://members.aol.com/sparkstj/rim45.jpg
http://members.aol.com/woodglider/wander1.jpg

The "foot launched" sailplane designed by Jim Maupin is the Carbon Dragon.
http://www.sailplanedirectory.com/Pl...cfm?planeID=54
http://www.sailplanehomebuilders.com/arndt_dragon.jpg

Wayne
HP-14 "6F"
http://www.soaridaho.com/
That it's, I knew it was a Maupin design.

Frank

Frank Whiteley 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?
Helicopter
Balloon
Foot (Woodstock option?)
How about this sled ride?
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/p...ain_H-2340.pdf

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


Frank Whiteley 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?
Helicopter
Balloon
Foot (Woodstock option?)

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


There are some videos on the web of this, but I can't find the link at
the moment.

Frank Whiteley

Frank Whiteley wrote:
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


There are some videos on the web of this, but I can't find the link at
the moment.

Frank Whiteley
http://tinyurl.com/vewfc
Gravity launch thread
2003 post, unfortunately with broken links.

Frank

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.

There's a video somewhere on the 'net of a PW-5 being launched exactly
that way, rolling down a steep, smooth grass slope. 2 or 3 people push
it at first before peeling off as it gains speed and then lifts off into
the slope lift. I think this was filmed in Poland.


--
martin@ | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. | Essex, UK
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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.

All are variations on a theme: "self launch" , "aero tow" , "Ground launch"

it's just the power supplier or mechanics that change
BT

"Robert Gaines" wrote in message
...
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?

The book I read was:
'I Learned To Fly For Hitler' by Joe Volmar

Kron Publications
1864 Irish Road
Dundee, Michigan 48131, USA

ISBN0-9671389-0-6

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 99-62464

Good reading, so add it to your library!

Ray



At 23:12 15 November 2006, Jack wrote:
Ray Lovinggood wrote:

Of course, the World War II vintage German rocket
interceptor,
of which I've forgotten who produced. Rocket power
for launching and after a few minutes of fuel burn,
it became a glider. Read the book, 'I Flew for Hitler'
(is that the title? And I have forgotten the author's
name. Good book!)


_I Flew for the Fuhrer_

by Heinz Knoke


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...37/nbookcom-20