Moving a glider with a U-Haul Truck

Dave Noyes did it with a Ventus CM, I believe.

WHY? - the clues in the name.

I remember reading about a cross country trip that started some where in the
Central US.. Ohio?
and ended on the Eastern Massachusetts coast..

That would be a long way to motor back west bound.
And a long way to go west, retrieve the trailer and drive east and west
again.

BT

"Pete Startup" wrote in message
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Dave Noyes did it with a Ventus CM, I believe.

WHY? - the clues in the name.

At 20:05 08 February 2009, BT wrote:
I remember reading about a cross country trip that started some where in
the Central US.. Ohio?
and ended on the Eastern Massachusetts coast..

That would be a long way to motor back west bound.
And a long way to go west, retrieve the trailer and drive east and west
again.

BT

David Noyes, Ventus CM. Takeoff: Marion, Ohio. Official start: Galion,
Ohio. Landing: Plymouth, Massachusetts. Written up in the January 1995
issue of SOARING. Aritcle titled "Straight out to Cape Cod".

One simple quote from the article about trucking back. "If you're evr
tempted to duplicate this trick, rent at least three dozen pads and have
lots of rope." There is one picture of the plane loaded in the trailer.

I know someone that made his straight out flight, secured the plane,
hopped on Greyhound to get home, then drove down with the trailer to get
his ship back. Now that I think of it, I know of at least two people that
have done that. It is much simpler to have a crew.

Steve

At 22:15 08 February 2009, Steve Leonard wrote:

I know someone that made his straight out flight, secured the plane,
hopped on Greyhound to get home, then drove down with the trailer to get
his ship back. Now that I think of it, I know of at least two people
that
have done that. It is much simpler to have a crew.

And if you're such a social misfit that you can't get anybody to crew
for you, just *hire* somebody to drive the trailer rig. Gotta be cheaper
than the U-Haul idea. And takes a lot less time.

Jim Beckman