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September 1st 07, 06:34 AM
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Historical question
On Aug 31, 9:05?pm, "Don Pyeatt" wrote:
Hopefully someone can tell me where and when was a glider first towed aloft by an aircraft? TNX !! Don Vol 2 of Peter Riedel's 3 vol. history of the Wasserkuppe, chapter 5 is dedecated to this question. It looks like the first successful and repeted airplane tows were done at Kassel-Waldau airport, Germany, 12 March 1927 by Gerhard Fieseler in the tow plane and Gottlob Espenlaub in the glider. Repeted on 20 March 1927. By May of that year airplane towing was used for a glider acrobatic contest at Rossitten on the Baltic coast in then East Prussia. Even if you do not read German, Riedel's history of the Wasserkuppe is an important work to own. It is also the history of gliding and the Germans who invented it. It is worth having for the pictures alone. Robert Mudd Moriarty, New Mexico 
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September 1st 07, 04:43 PM
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Any ideas where it might be available to purchase? Any venues in the
US sell it? Thanks, Ryan in Madison
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September 3rd 07, 05:46 PM
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Historical question
How about the first airplane-powered tow in the U.S. ??
gdp wrote in message ps.com... On Aug 31, 9:05?pm, "Don Pyeatt" wrote: Hopefully someone can tell me where and when was a glider first towed aloft by an aircraft? TNX !! Don Vol 2 of Peter Riedel's 3 vol. history of the Wasserkuppe, chapter 5 is dedecated to this question. It looks like the first successful and repeted airplane tows were done at Kassel-Waldau airport, Germany, 12 March 1927 by Gerhard Fieseler in the tow plane and Gottlob Espenlaub in the glider. Repeted on 20 March 1927. By May of that year airplane towing was used for a glider acrobatic contest at Rossitten on the Baltic coast in then East Prussia. Even if you do not read German, Riedel's history of the Wasserkuppe is an important work to own. It is also the history of gliding and the Germans who invented it. It is worth having for the pictures alone. Robert Mudd Moriarty, New Mexico
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