Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/06/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]http://oldportal.euscreen.eu/play.jsp?id=EUS_BC87D04F73774E19B93FD51B0FC92170 is a rather old style report from 1968 on the Dublin Gliding Club showing the car pull system - invented here. They improved the car by using a 1950s one later... Douglas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols at lighttube.net> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2015 11:01 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: After Dinner, at the Airport > Hi Douglas, > > That launch system sounds like a lot of fun, but with a potential > collision if the cable should break. I had one glider ride, many years > ago, but it was an airplane tow. > > The sailplanes now being produced are a far cry from the gliders I first > encountered in the late 1940s. The materials are much lighter, and the > finishes are so smooth that they appear very delicate. > > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > > On 6/7/2015 4:13 PM, Douglas Barry wrote: >> Nice looking sailplane or glider as we call them over here. I used to >> glide back in the late 60s/early 70s when there were no towed lifts in >> Baldonnell aerodrome. We were at on one end of the runway with a wire >> running to the back of an old stripped V8 - a chassis with seats - via a >> pulley at the other end. At a signal, the V8 would move towards us, >> pulling the wire through the pulley. The wire would tighten and we'd be >> pulled towards him. Gradually speed was built up and we would climb >> sufficiently high enough to release the cable. At that stage the V8 would >> accelerate hard to maintain strain on the wire and stop it kinking - a >> small drogue chute helped. Slowing was fun at the end of the runway. >> >> Douglas >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Nichols" >> <jhnichols at lighttube.net> >> To: "LUG at Leica-Users.org" <lug at leica-users.org>; "Olympus Camera >> Discussion" <olympus at thomasclausen.net> >> Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2015 3:16 AM >> Subject: [Leica] IMG: After Dinner, at the Airport >> >> >>> It was a beautiful day, so I decided to see what the late day activity >>> might be at the airport. While attending a ball game, I had seen a >>> Cessna towing a sailplane overhead. It seems the Civil Air Patrol had >>> some checkout activity going on. I walked onto the ramp as the >>> sailplane was returning to the hangar. >>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Two-Place+Sailplane+Rolling+Home.jpg.html >>> >>> This sailplane has a snug, two-place cockpit beneath the hinged canopy. >>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Tandem+Cockpit.jpg.html >>> >>> I walked out to take a look at a visiting CAP Maule aircraft from >>> Alabama. I had never seen a Maule in CAP colors. >>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/CAP+Maule.jpg.html >>> >>> The CAP recently purchased a group of new Cessna 172s, and there was one >>> of these on the ramp. The new landing/taxi light caught my eye. >>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/New+Cessna+172+Landing+Light.jpg.html >>> >>> This airplane smelled new all over. Even the alternator behind the >>> cooling air inlet was shiny, with no bug spatter. >>> >>> All with the Fuji X-E1 and 27mm Pancake lens. >>> >>> Comments and critiques welcomed. >>> >>> -- >>> Jim Nichols >>> Tullahoma, TN USA >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >