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November 16th 06, 03:17 PM
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Team of horses
Dirigible Ralph Barnaby did both. 
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November 18th 06, 01:05 AM
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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? Motor-bunjee - favoured by some South Walians in the late 1960s - not always successful.
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November 18th 06, 06:32 PM
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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.
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November 18th 06, 09:06 PM
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Andy Melville wrote: 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!? Was done at the Worlds in 1995 in NZ IIRC, plus other places, both as a lift and a tow.
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November 19th 06, 05:51 PM
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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? I've seen video of a Russia being lifted and released from a hot air balloon. To top this off he did a vertical climb at the gondola until he stopped and fell back in a tail slide. Randy "AV8" Zuni II ser #24
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