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Ron Wanttaja wrote:


Or a remote-release hook, either those made for towing gliders ($$$$) or a
homemade one. One guy on this page had a pretty slick setup...the hook was
released by pressing the left rudder pedal all the way. See the last picture
on:

http://www.bowersflybaby.com/tech/tailhook.html

In my ~7 years of flying the original Fly Baby, there was only twice that I was
unable to find a tiedown rope or an anchor point for my own rope. Once was on a
grass strip in the middle of nowhere, the second time is when the engine quietly
went to sleep on final approach on a 15-degree day.

Ron Wanttaja

I like it Why did he go for the foot release as opposed to a hand
release?

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 09:33:50 -0500, "Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired"
wrote:

Ron Wanttaja wrote:


Or a remote-release hook, either those made for towing gliders ($$$$) or a
homemade one. One guy on this page had a pretty slick setup...the hook was
released by pressing the left rudder pedal all the way.

I like it Why did he go for the foot release as opposed to a hand
release?

He would have had to run a new cable all the way back from the cockpit to the
tailwheel for a hand release. His setup attached the release link for the
tailhook to the same horn that steered the tailwheel, hence the regular rudder
cable did the duty.

The only possible drawback might be to foul the rudder control, but the release
chain for the tailhook (the small chain with a yellow plastic crimp sleeve) had
a quick-disconnect feature that made it pop off when the tension rose past that
needed to release the hook

http://www.bowersflybaby.com/tech/mike'shook3.JPG

Ron Wanttaja