I saw a similar system at a contest in Lakeland Florida back in 1974. Worked great until one of the towlines wrapped around the ground line loop. You never saw such a mess and we spent more time waiting for the lines to be untangled than we spent flying.Has anyone here ever heard of a continuous loop sailplane winch? The setup would look something like this:
http://www.vvsss.com/ezone/clwinch.gif
Continuous loops are used with dog lure machines, which are virtually identical to sailplane winches, and pulleys made for the purpose are available from Injoy.
(See "S/S Continuous Loop Wheel" at http://www.injoy-1.com/catal_1.htm )
This is an obvious idea and it seems certain that someone must have tried it, but so far I haven't found anything on the web.
Mike
Chuck Anderson
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