On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:41:57 -0800, Sylvain wrote:

How does it work these days when you drop in with an aircraft on a trailer?

For instance, a more practical way to fold / unfold wings than is available
with sailplanes (which more often than not require heavy lifting by several
very patient and skilled participants...); something that would make it
possible for one person to easily store into a trailer (to take home, or
park at the local airport far cheaper than in a hangar) and back to a
flyable condition, could be quite a neat thing.

My airplane (a Kolb) is stored, wings folded, in an enclosed trailer
all the time. During the warm weather I keep the trailer at the
airport for convenience, for the same price as outdoor tiedown (about
1/4 the cost of a hangar); in the winter I keep it at home and tow it
to the airport when I want to fly. All the local pilots, even those
who don't keep their planes there, know the gate combination.

Unfolding and preflighting the plane takes about 15 minutes, and I can
do it alone.

The other local airport, which sadly just closed, didn't even have a
gate.

-Dana
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Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.-- Albert Einstein