Another sailplane lost!
Bugger. Was hoping you'd cough them up!
Another interesting short flight was a friend towing his 1-26 to the
hangar with the technique a lot of Schweizer pilots use:
A short rope attached to the tow release that has a T-handle on the
end.
Nothing much you can do once the glider tries to leave the ground but
let go and run upwind. In this case it did no damage to anything else.
The Tonopah launch out of the tiedowns was lucky, only putting a blue
stripe on Charlie Westerinen's winglet.
A close shave, as Martin Feeg would write in Soaring Australia.
Jim
On Feb 2, 8:56*am, GARY BOGGS wrote:
I never saw any of the pictures taken of me in the wrecked 1-26. *If
you have any could you email them to me?
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