Re: [aus-soaring] Rocket launching of gliders ? Anyone know if it's been done before ?

2003-09-15 Thread Cliff Pritchard
Look at this site for pictures http://membres.lycos.fr/wings2/gallerie.htm Regards Cliff At 02:35 14/09/03 +, you wrote: The French build the Fouga Sylphe in the 50's or so. That was a jet self launching glider and I'm pretty sure it got airborne. Rgds - Rolf

Re: [aus-soaring] Rocket launching of gliders ? Anyone know if it's been done before ?

2003-09-13 Thread rolf a. buelter
The French build the Fouga Sylphe in the 50's or so. That was a jet self launching glider and I'm pretty sure it got airborne. Rgds - Rolf _ Hot chart ringtones and polyphonics. Go to http://ninemsn.com.au/mobilemania/default.asp

Re: [aus-soaring] Rocket launching of gliders ? Anyone know if it's been done before ?

2003-09-08 Thread Kevin Raner
PM Subject: [aus-soaring] Rocket launching of gliders ? Anyone know if it's been done before ? An unusual historical question for the combined genius of the list ... While visiting Ray Ash at Gulgong on Saturday (to scan some great old photos of the early days of Southern Cross Gliding Club

RE: [aus-soaring] Rocket launching of gliders ? Anyone know if it's been done before ?

2003-09-08 Thread Catherine Conway
So is the space shuttle ;-) -Cath -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Raner Sent: Monday, 8 September 2003 8:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [aus-soaring] Rocket launching of gliders ? Anyone know if it's been done before

[aus-soaring] Rocket launching of gliders ? Anyone know if it's been done before ?

2003-09-07 Thread Jason Armistead
An unusual historical question for the combined genius of the list ... 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

Re: [aus-soaring] Rocket launching of gliders ? Anyone know if it's been done before ?

2003-09-07 Thread Mike Borgelt
At 11:27 PM 7/09/03 +1000, you wrote: An unusual historical question for the combined genius of the list ... 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

[aus-soaring] Rocket launching of gliders ? Anyone know if it's been done before ?

2003-09-07 Thread Jarek Mosiejewski
There is another type of take-off practiced in Poland in Bezmiechowa: gravitational. Gliders are just pushed down the slope and after a short run they get air-borne. Apparently this type of launch has been invented a few years ago when the tug plane broke down and in desperation, someone tried