- Mon Feb 18, 2019 7:34 am
#406542
Reading about how to tie em on just reminds me about the ones we lost! No not a vehicle crash and damage, god knows you've got my poem from That one, just a slack tie on or crappy racks that led to gliders on the ground story... Here's one from when my glider was only 1 yr old, just my mate and me had mountain launched inland and by good fortune I had strung a few thermals together and finally landed at the coast. He had missed the o.t.b. thermal, so hitched to the l.z. where we left his ute, drove to his paddock, got his topless and drove the 60km to me. We tossed my topless on the ute {which had no front steady and rather short tie distance between tie points, and which I had bitched about a few times before}. Anyway he tied our gliders on, { I have found this to now not be true but I used to believe pilots know their own vehicles tie down issues better than a visiter } Anyway, finally 3/4 up the mountain he exclaims"Col the gliders aren't on the ute anymore" as he stopped! We found his glider first as we drove down now and finally on some rocky ground mine. .Did a uturn and collected my ute, changed glider over, some muttered hows and we left. I couldn't rest easy till I took the sail off and apart from the LE's rubbing through the bag as it dragged along till finally fell down everything was ok I went from an absolute high,from that fly, to a paranoid low till I had that frame inspection....I always help tie gliders on now ..
1975 : Lightning Bolt ( 18x16), Cobra ( cambered keel , roach tips ), Skydart ( 2 piece crossbar , fin ), Ibis ( keel pocket , > a/r , wider nose angle ) , Pelican , Pelican2 , Orion ( 40% d/s , metal battens , tip supports , lufflines?, folding a frame & kingpost , stronger ), Mega3 ( 70% d/s , floating crossbar? ), Meteor ( nose nappy , streamline kingpost , mylar inserts ), Foil ( streamline downtubes , thinner wires ), GT ( glass tips ), XS ( vg , speedbar ), Climax ( topless , 90% d/s , keelpost hangpoint , pip pins ), Climax4 ( >a/r , cam l/e's ), Sting3 ( < a/r , lighter/easier , poorer glide/speed range, fun..), Gecko ( moderate a/r, powerful vg, side wire/luff wire compensation), Fun190 (stress free basic user friendly).
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness . MT.
We are all in the gutter...but some of us are looking at the stars. MT.
Youtube videos- Col Rushton
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness . MT.
We are all in the gutter...but some of us are looking at the stars. MT.
Youtube videos- Col Rushton