Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/06/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Very ingenious solution. Thanks for sharing it with me. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA On 6/7/2015 7:08 PM, Douglas Barry wrote: > http://oldportal.euscreen.eu/play.jsp?id=EUS_BC87D04F73774E19B93FD51B0FC92170 > > > > is a rather old style report from 1968 on the Dublin Gliding Club > showing the car pull system - invented here. They improved the car by > using a 1950s one later... > > Douglas > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Nichols" > <jhnichols at lighttube.net> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> > Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2015 11:01 PM > Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: After Dinner, at the Airport > > >> Hi Douglas, >> >> That launch system sounds like a lot of fun, but with a potential >> collision if the cable should break. I had one glider ride, many >> years ago, but it was an airplane tow. >> >> The sailplanes now being produced are a far cry from the gliders I >> first encountered in the late 1940s. The materials are much lighter, >> and the finishes are so smooth that they appear very delicate. >> >> Jim Nichols >> Tullahoma, TN USA >> >> On 6/7/2015 4:13 PM, Douglas Barry wrote: >>> Nice looking sailplane or glider as we call them over here. I used >>> to glide back in the late 60s/early 70s when there were no towed >>> lifts in Baldonnell aerodrome. We were at on one end of the runway >>> with a wire running to the back of an old stripped V8 - a chassis >>> with seats - via a pulley at the other end. At a signal, the V8 >>> would move towards us, pulling the wire through the pulley. The wire >>> would tighten and we'd be pulled towards him. Gradually speed was >>> built up and we would climb sufficiently high enough to release the >>> cable. At that stage the V8 would accelerate hard to maintain strain >>> on the wire and stop it kinking - a small drogue chute helped. >>> Slowing was fun at the end of the runway. >>> >>> Douglas >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Nichols" >>> <jhnichols at lighttube.net> >>> To: "LUG at Leica-Users.org" <lug at leica-users.org>; "Olympus Camera >>> Discussion" <olympus at thomasclausen.net> >>> Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2015 3:16 AM >>> Subject: [Leica] IMG: After Dinner, at the Airport >>> >>> >>>> It was a beautiful day, so I decided to see what the late day >>>> activity might be at the airport. While attending a ball game, I >>>> had seen a Cessna towing a sailplane overhead. It seems the Civil >>>> Air Patrol had some checkout activity going on. I walked onto the >>>> ramp as the sailplane was returning to the hangar. >>>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Two-Place+Sailplane+Rolling+Home.jpg.html >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> This sailplane has a snug, two-place cockpit beneath the hinged >>>> canopy. >>>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Tandem+Cockpit.jpg.html >>>> >>>> I walked out to take a look at a visiting CAP Maule aircraft from >>>> Alabama. I had never seen a Maule in CAP colors. >>>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/CAP+Maule.jpg.html >>>> >>>> The CAP recently purchased a group of new Cessna 172s, and there >>>> was one of these on the ramp. The new landing/taxi light caught my >>>> eye. >>>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/New+Cessna+172+Landing+Light.jpg.html >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> This airplane smelled new all over. Even the alternator behind the >>>> cooling air inlet was shiny, with no bug spatter. >>>> >>>> All with the Fuji X-E1 and 27mm Pancake lens. >>>> >>>> Comments and critiques welcomed. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Jim Nichols >>>> Tullahoma, TN USA >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >