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Tow rope length?
On Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 8:15:04 PM UTC-4, Michael Opitz wrote:
At 21:40 19 October 2016, wrote: On Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 4:28:32 PM UTC-4, Tango Eight wrote: "Mine's shorter." "No way. Mine's shorter!" "Bull****, I have video." First for everything.... T8 I said mine was longer! LOL UH During WWII (1943), the Germans developed a system they called Starrschlepp in order to tow combat gliders at night and in IFR conditions. They used an articulated metal shaft that was about one meter long. After the war, the US Army Air Corps developed a similar system through information gained from Operation Paperclip (otherwise known as the "brain drain"). My father was the primary person involved in this knowledge transfer. It eventually led to the current air refueling (by boom) method in use by the USAF today. See: http://www.luftarchiv.de/index.htm?/...te/schlepp.htm So there you go.. Does anyone else have shorter than one meter?? Piggyback (bolted on like the Space Shuttle) doesn't count. The Germans had those in WWII also. RO I had the privilege in the early 90's of hearing Rudy explain the process of going to an ever shorter rope during the war. This was at a club meeting. The hairs on the back of my neck still stand up thinking about one meter of tow space. He did claim that the shorer the rope the less difficulty for the glider pilot. |
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Tow rope length?
How does one box the wake ?
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Tow rope length?
On Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 11:28:32 PM UTC+3, Tango Eight wrote:
"Mine's shorter." "No way. Mine's shorter!" "Bull****, I have video." First for everything.... T8 How soon we forget... http://www.batphone.org/_/rsrc/14418.../zoolander.png |
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Tow rope length?
Don't need to...
On 10/19/2016 8:31 PM, Dale Watkins wrote: How does one box the wake ? -- Dan, 5J |
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