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Sailplane and Gliding - Back in the day when people used typewriters
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And things come full circle...
I did a bit of gliding at Dunstable 10 years ago - all was either winching or aero-towing.
But in them olden days, the glider used to be launched with elastic bands off the ridge, as pictured in your link.
In mordern times, this has now been taken over by paragliding and hanggliding pilots, continuing the tradition of using suitable hills to launch flying vehicles from...
Of course these days ... Denmark is very flat, and does not really lend itself to foot-launched flying. 8-(
Maybe when the kids are grown, I'll get enough cash to by a glider, and become a soft-har pilot with beard and pipe and everything...
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I did a bit of gliding at Dunstable 10 years ago - all was either winching or aero-towing.
But in them olden days, the glider used to be launched with elastic bands off the ridge, as pictured in your link.
In mordern times, this has now been taken over by paragliding and hanggliding pilots, continuing the tradition of using suitable hills to launch flying vehicles from...
Of course these days ... Denmark is very flat, and does not really lend itself to foot-launched flying. 8-(
Maybe when the kids are grown, I'll get enough cash to by a glider, and become a soft-har pilot with beard and pipe and everything...
Do you fly?
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Haven't been on a tow for ages, some 15 years (last one Dunstable). I wanted to move on from the Biggin Hill training (air scouts), but my own troop and parents were far, far away from there, physically and financially.
I've still got the manual(s), but todays scouts appear to do more than build a hot air balloon out of tissue paper, wire and meths, clean and tie down gliders at the end of the day, read up on runway signage and take the controls of a Cessna 70 once in flight.
http://www.3rdrainham.com/3ra/badgecriterias/scouts/Advanced Aviation Skills.pdf
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Hang gliding or just gilding.....Reminds me of the days where we would glue some feathers on some poor dolt and throw them off a cliff, last minute instructions were to flap like heck and see what happens........
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That spirit is still well alive.
Back in the 90s, I personally witnessed a paragliding instructor on the top of a hill in southern Poland telling a (foreign) trainee pilot "oke... noh emergancy brejks, GOH!!" and he pushed the guy forward - the wing came up - he took off and glided down to the bottom of the hill - and landed safely.
A short while later at the bottom of the hill, I got to ask the trainee pilot if they had been teaching something about emergency braking, or whether that was just some last minute advice given by the instructor in addition to the normal curriculum.
The guy replied "what do you mean normal curriculum? I only met this guy this very morning - that was the first thing he ever said to me apart from "hello"!