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Subject: [Leica] IMG: After Dinner, at the Airport
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2015 20:49:29 -0500
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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
>>>>
>>>>
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