On Thursday, October 20, 2016 at 4:04:41 PM UTC+3, OHM Ω wrote:
A friend of mine (seriously) is about to retire and wants to begin touring the US with an RV while towing a glider trailer. Been done many times. No issues to speak of with this concept.

But he also does NOT want to use the RV to tow the assembled glider around the airport during events. He would much rather bring another smaller vehicle along for the tour for the "tow out".

His current idea is using a three-wheeler motorcycle. It would be on a ramped flat bed suspended from the back of the RV and then the glider trailer behind that. You can see some of those ideas here http://www.mightyhauler.com/ (with a car instead of a glider). Anyone done this? So that is idea number one.

But a car might be better than a motorcycle (for events and for side trips) so is there an option for that? It might be a hair-brained idea but could an RV haul a ramped car trailer and add a glider trailer behind that? Obviously, you cannot back up but is it too long? Too dangerous? Too illegal?

Why can't you back up? It's only a matter of skill :-)

The most evil thing I've reversed with on a regular basis is the Bamford hay rake, which is a trailer with the hitch attached to a steering front wheel via a pretty short tongue. But we do it :-)

http://images2.hellotrade.com/data3/...ke-500x500.jpg

I have no idea about the legality.

If you can arrange for the glider trailer to hitch onto the car trailer right above the axle (i.e. have the axle at the back, not in the middle) then you might well end up with something both more stable to tow and easier on the glider than attaching it directly to the RV.

If you use a tray for a trike/quad then you'd want to extend the glider trailer tongue to still attach to the regular hitch, not to the back of the tray.