At 09:25 11 March 2009, Bruce Hoult wrote:

Right. Try towing with a Huey :-)

It's been done. Well, maybe not with a Huey, but some big military
glider. Richard Schreder used to tell hilarious stories about flying in
some sort of contest in South America, and being retrieved from an
outlanding by a military helicopter. He went to great lengths trying to
communicate to the chopper crew that he wanted only horizontal flight,
*no* vertical maneuvers. I guess the rope was long enough and the
retrieve worked out OK.

Schreder was a fantastically entertaining speaker at any kind of glider
convention or seminar. Plenty good enough to make up for the silly rug he
wore on his head.

Jim Beckman