shipping glider to NZ-advice on securing glider in trailer

jb92563 wrote:
November Bravo wrote:
I am shipping my glider with trailer to New Zealand during the next
week. Any advice on how to pack the glider in the trailer other than
the usual road retrieval securing in the Cobra trailer? The shipping
is not in a container but a "roll on". Any other advice would be
appreciated. Thanks, John Iacobucci

One thing to note is that you should cushion and secure everything but
not so tight that it can not give a little under flexing.

We found the forward wing spigot in the fuselage slightly dented the top
surface of the wing adjacent to it in the trailer. Boats roll quite a
lot sometimes. I'd pad the wing quite carefully where it's adjacent to
the root fittings in the fuselage. That's about the nearest a delicate
surface gets to something hard.

After that experience with a club glider I used a sofa cushion each side
to keep the wings and fuselage separate when I shipped mine.

Hope this helps
GC

Its been known to happen that securing the fuselage too firmly on a
trailer has caused dammage due to the trailer flexing, and stressing
the fuselage and breaking things on it.

Lots of cusioning and foam around the securing straps is ussually
adequate to prevent that, by allowing some play, when cinching things
down extra tight.

Just something to consider.

Ray