What we here in the USA need is a cheap good winch option. We need
price quotes. Bill says his will be cheaper than the Skylaunch. Well,
what the price then? Skylaunch publishes theirs. However, I agree with
Bill in that 90,000 Euros is way too expensive. They're certainly
making a nice profit at that price.

Perhaps a US bases shop could offer a similar system as the Skylaunch/
Tost for much less than European prices, especially if some clubs get
together and make a combined group order. I think one of the problems
is the very low volume of production for commercial manufacturers.

Or perhaps an easy set of plans could be drawn up and digitized to be
ordered and manufactured by a machine shop for any club or operator
whenever a new winch is desired? Bottom line, we have to get the price
down from 90,000 Euros.
Tom