My favorite is also rather embarrassing. When I was younger, I built a series of Gentle Lady gliders. My first ended in disaster shortly after getting finished.
I used to fly in the back yard of a junior high school. There was plenty of room to fly there. I had flight-tested the Gentle Lady with a few hand launches, trimmed it out, etc. At the time, I knew nothing of "tow hook under the CG", I just put it where the manufacturer said it should have been. To this day, I still do not know what I did wrong, but... I stretched out the surgical tubing, hooked onto the glider, and let it go. It went up, kinda/sorta stalled, nosed over to the left, and went straight down to the ground. After hitting pretty hard, it was then dragged along the grass, through a football dummy (pieces flew everywhere!), through another dummy, and finally came to rest as the rubber no longer had any stretch in it. There seemed to be more balsa and Monokote scattered throughout the field than I ever remember seeing in the box. Needless to say, my newfound fear of hi-starts encouraged me to build and mount a .049 engine pod for the next Gentle Lady I built. Ironically, I also have had my best flight with a hi-start. Last summer, I had my first hour+ flight (about 1:20, this time a 7037 Compulsion) off a hi-start. - Dave _____________________________________________ From: Tom Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2005 17:59 To: soaring@airage.com Subject: [RCSE] New post: hi starts OK, time to change the subject from trashing everyone and each other---- its a friendly sport. What is your favorite hi-start story-- not winch, high start. Crashes, short high start setups, 2M 3M etc, Share some knowledge and fun stories Thanks for the BW tom
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