While visiting Ray Ash at Gulgong on Saturday (to scan some great old photos of the early days of Southern Cross Gliding Club for our Back To Camden Week starting 20th September), we were looking through Ray's early log book.
It's a British Gliding Association one, marked as 3rd Reprint 1949.
On the inside front cover, it lists the Types of Launch as:
C = Catapult W = Winch M = Motor car-tow A = Aero-tow
and
R = Rocket assisted
OK, while I can accept that catapult might be another word for Bungy launching, I was a bit taken aback by the notion of launching a glider with a ROCKET ! Ray mentioned he'd never really noticed that before either.
I wonder if anyone can point me to any solid evidence of rocket assisted launching of gliders by the British or others.
It sounds like a novel, if somewhat dangerous, way to get airborne in a sailplane !
Cheers
Jason Armistead Southern Cross Gliding Club Camden NSW Visit http://www.gliding.com.au/ !
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