I am working on a set of small, throttleable rocket
motors at each wingtip, controlled by a computer tied
into a gyroscopic inertial platform in the luggage
area - but the stick seems like a good idea too.

9B



At 17:00 24 August 2007, wrote:
On Aug 23, 2:59 pm, Andy wrote:
On Aug 23, 7:21 am, JJ Sinclair wrote:

OK, you just landed at a deserted strip and called
for an aero-
retrieve, but there's nobody around to run your wing.
Been there, done that, and it wasn't pretty!

Me too and decided never again. I built a compact
tip wheel from a
rectangle of sheet aluminum, 2 short length of aluminum
angle section,
and a roller blade wheel. It took about an hour to
make form scrap I
had on hand. It's pre-prepared with double sided
carpet tape and
wrapped with enought tape to fair it. It can be stuck
under either
wing tip in a minute or so. It tested ok on a paved
runway but may
not stand up to a rough strip. The adavantage of
the flat plate
design over a shaped leading edge cuff if that it
fits both wings.
Disadvantage more likely to get knocked off.

Andy

I use any handy local vegetation (commonly called 'a
stick')

Prop up the wing with that.

Get in...

Ask Tow plane to hang on the brakes and do a full power
run up before
releasing brakes.

Hold onto your brake as the tension comes on.
Release brake and your off..

The 'stick' is bio de-gradable too.

Regards

Al