How it's Made - Gliders

That happened to me a few times with my Ventus 2C. The wing stops well
short of being seated. A simple matter of watching the hooks as the
wing is being inserted.

On Mar 5, 8:16*am, Tuno wrote:
That happened to me a few times with my Ventus 2C. The wing stops well
short of being seated. A simple matter of watching the hooks as the
wing is being inserted.

This is most likely just an artifact of "movie making" - the shot was
staged for the camera. The worker was probably told by the director
to "insert the wing and walk away". Editors choose the best clips
available and hope no one notices the unavoidable screw-ups. Actors
just ignore set glitches and try to look like nothing happened.
There's a lot of this sort of thing that finds it's way into theater
films. There are web sites based on it.

I presume there's no real safety issue since, as has been pointed out,
the wings won't fully seat so the wing pins can be inserted unless the
control hookups engage properly.

On Mar 3, 7:30*pm, Steve Leonard wrote:
Anyone else notice that when the wing is being put on during the assembly,
one of the auto hookups misses? *Watch closely at 3:15 into Part 2.

Oops! *I bet the "amatuers" that assembled and launched the Discus in
under a minute didn't have that problem!

Steve

FYI, the "Worlds Fastest Glider Assembly" video has been expanded to
show training of the team members and trial assemblies before the
camera rolled for the final cut - presumably due to criticism that it
looked unsafe. It looks to me as if the Fins did a fine job.

I also know that it IS possible to assmble an ASG-29 with a "miss"
similar to this. I got to help remove a wing, get it right, and put the
pins back in on the grid at a contest. The driver went in the fuselage,
but missed the cup in the fuselage.

The moral of my comment was that just because there are automatic hookups
doesn't mean they will always hook up. I am pretty sure I can get the
wings on my Austria and miss one of its auto hookups. On SH and
Glasflugel stuff, if a control surface is held full travel one way, this
will very likely happen. So, when I am helping my friend with his
Mosquito, I make sure I get the aileron near neutral as we are sliding the
wings home (he has a mid-aileron leading edge dolly that is held in place
with a loop of big bore surgical tubing that can set teh aileron against
the up stop.)

I am also quite aware of how shots are made and assembled for a piece like
that shown on "How it's made." Ever notice how many shots in "The Boy
Who Flew With Condors" have the registration number on the 1-26
backwards? And how many times his hair parts first on the left, then on
the right and back to the left in one flight? Some of us don't have to
worry about combing our hair back and forth during a flight! :-) I
remember discussions about "Why did the towplane break right when the
glider released?" Because the film was flipped around!

Steve Leonard

In article ,
says...
Interesting -- SH is vacuum bagging the wings, and then curing in an
oven. I didn't know they were so high tech.

Standard stuff ain't it?

--
Duncan

They were doing this when I first visited SH in '71 (and I don't expect
the other major manufacturers were doing anything different). Nothing
new.

At 11:37 10 March 2009, Dave Doe wrote:
In article ,
says...
Interesting -- SH is vacuum bagging the wings, and then curing in an
oven. I didn't know they were so high tech.

Standard stuff ain't it?

--
Duncan