Our club lost a greatly respected, and still missed,
member in one of the accidents referred to in Bill
Dean's post. The visiting glider pilot 'winch launched'
on the aerotow run within the airfield with results
described in Chris Rolling's article.

I think that if that were to happen in the Scotland
now, and the glider involved had been towed by the
belly hook when a nose hook was available and mandated
for aerotow by the handbook, then manslaughter charges
would be inevitable - followed by civil action of the
part of the deceased's next of kin.

John Galloway