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On Jul 13, 2:33*pm, "Bill Daniels" bildan@comcast-dot-net wrote:
The skylaunch is a cosmetic update of the 1960's US Gerhlein winches and suffers from the same major shortcomings. *If you still like it, save $50k - $75k by spending a couple of thousand for an old Gerhlein and fix it up. If you'd like a modern, state of the art winch, take a look at these from US winch buiders: http://www.romansdesign.com/ andhttp://www.hydrowinch.com Bill Daniels Some serious crack smoking been going on there :-) Skylaunches are quite superb winches. They're very well made and give smooth, powerful, and repeatable launches. A pleasure to fly on and drive. Dam |
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