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 book
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
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
Sunday, September 07, 2003 11:27 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
>
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So is the space shuttle ;-)
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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
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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
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