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How do I ship a glider from CA to TN?
I would suggest calling Soaring NV in Minden and Williams Soaring in
California. There are usually people willing to tow the trailer anywhere for a fee. I had a glider towed from Arizona to California by a private person and we just had a glider towed from the east coast to California by a private person. Guy |
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How do I ship a glider from CA to TN?
On Feb 14, 12:33*pm, Scott Alexander
wrote: Suppose I wanted to ship a glider from California to Tennessee. *How would I do that? *Anyone done this before? I have searched the forum regarding this, but only finding shipping info to/from internationally. Thanks! Scott, Call a local trucking company and ship on a truck flatbed or enclosed. Richard www.craggyaero.com |
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How do I ship a glider from CA to TN?
On Feb 14, 10:34*pm, Eric Greenwell wrote:
On 2/14/2012 12:57 PM, Hagbard Celine wrote: A friend of mine had a glider shipped from the East coast to Washington state by rail and the managed to do some significant damage to it. They must hav dropped the trailer while loading or unloading it from the rail car. I spoke to a couple of people at the SSA convention who strongly advised against rail transport in the US for gliders in trailers. Apparently, the cars crashing together when switched from one train and re-coupled onto another train is too forceful for most trailers, and the gliders are damaged. -- Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (change ".netto" to ".us" to email me) Eric, I had a project that for one day put me in a rail "Hump Yard". No, not that kind of hump yard, unfortunately. A hump yard is sort of a marshalling yard with a slight hill where a locomotive pushes cars up to the crest. The cars are uncoupled and allowed to roll, via the help of gravity, down the gentle slope and they are directed by many switches in the tracks to the right spot as a new "train" is built. Fascinating to watch. At least for a while. While the rail cars are rolling very slowly, there is a tremendous mass moving which has a lot of energy. When the moving car hits a parked rail car, there's a lot of energy expended. WHAM! Even at a slow walking speed, it's amazing how much of a "WHAM" that is produced. There were many rail cars carrying new automobiles and many times, when the rail cars "collided", the automotive alarms were set off. Some of the rail cars were the open top gondolas carrying scrap metal. Some of the metal bits were big and heavy chunks of steel that would "leave a mark" if one hit you. And lots of the parts were strewn around the tracks, no doubt ejected when a rolling car connected to a stopped car. You don't want to be close to the cars when they are getting ready to slam into stopped cars. Interesting is that the slowly rolling rail cars are very quiet. That's one of the dangers of working there. Never stand with your back facing the direction of where the cars are coming from. One can be approaching, again at a slow walking speed, and you just don't hear it. Eerie! |
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How do I ship a glider from CA to TN?
Check with the Car Show guys, they do it all the time via low cost
Auto movers. |
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How do I ship a glider from CA to TN?
Uship
Truckee to Dallas 1,100$ several years ago. Worked out very well. On 2/14/2012 2:33 PM, Scott Alexander wrote: Suppose I wanted to ship a glider from California to Tennessee. How would I do that? Anyone done this before? I have searched the forum regarding this, but only finding shipping info to/from internationally. Thanks! |
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How do I ship a glider from CA to TN?
On 2-16-2012 14:06, YourNameHere wrote:
Uship Truckee to Dallas 1,100$ several years ago. Worked out very well. On 2/14/2012 2:33 PM, Scott Alexander wrote: Suppose I wanted to ship a glider from California to Tennessee. How would I do that? Anyone done this before? I have searched the forum regarding this, but only finding shipping info to/from internationally. Thanks! I suppose you can't fly it there... Powered plane 1, glider 0. |
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