Eric Greenwell wrote:
Bill Daniels wrote:
Eric, perhaps you know George Moore who lives in your area. He has
written an series of papers on the forces involved in winch launch.
He would be able to provide the exact answers.

I don't know him, though I think I've heard the name. I was hoping
someone had just read the tension meter on winch during one those 5000'
launches and could tell us what it said.

It's unlikely that the winch had a tension meter. In any case, the
tension can't exceed the strength of the weak link, the weak link
specified for an ASK-21, for instance, permits a max load factor
equivalent to 2.5G.

Marc