Here is a couple of videos from YouTube of the modified Tost winch that set
the altitude record and and of the view from the cockpit as the pilot does
aerobatics on the way down.

See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VlRd9-wxQI (Search YouTube for
"Hohenflug" if the link doesn't work.) BTW 1500 meters =

See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFKsjDIjmDg (Search YouTube for
"Schleppwinde")

BTW, 1500 meters = 4,921 feet 15 M/S = 29 knots.

Bill Daniels