Funny Story - Glider Tow

On Feb 7, 6:35*pm, Andreas Maurer wrote:
On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 07:26:46 -0800 (PST), wrote:
Wish we had a film of that. I would entitle it, "When Good Planes Go
Bad". We are still laughing at ourselves on this one. We might make
several darts and create a competitive sport out of this.

Well Tom,

here's the hardcore version of your story:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txpQg...eature=related

Oh that hurts to watch. I saw something similar years ago where both a
towplane and glider model were destroyed. In that one the towplane
radio had a problem and the glider could not release in time. I wonder
if they should rig a deadmans switch type arrangement for the glider
pilot's radio where letting go would release the glider on tow. King
of like a buddy box switch. Seems the towplane pilot could have
aborted the takeoff. Even if he can't watch everything goign on you'd
have hoped the glider pilot would let him know something bad is going
on (using suitable descriptive phraseology). Anybody know if is is
common for the towing models to be able to release the line?

Darryl