RE: [Aus-soaring] Aero-tow question(s)

[John Orton]

I have never done it but apparently Tiger Moths were used a fair bit some years back. There is a historic picture or two around our club showing a Tiger towing. Mind you the All Up weight of the glider was a bit lower then. I thought I saw reference to C150s being used to tow in America. Some of them were re-engined though I think.     -----Original Message----- From: PTB [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 26 March 2004 11:02 AM To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Aero-tow question(s)   At 01:30 PM 26/03/2004, you wrote: G'Day, To anyones knowledge, (both here in Australia, and overseas) has anyone ever used a Cessna 150 or TigerMoth for Towing? As far as I'm aware, the early days of Bathurst Soaring Club (mid '60's on..) used Monty Cotton's Tiger Moth as their standard launch vehicle. Originally sharing the airport at Raglan and now at the current location at Piper's Field at Eglinton where we don't have enough strip length to do winch launches. From this you could extrapolate that it had a fairly short take off run, even fully encumbered. ;) (These are very low power acft and available very cheaply)... This then leads on to the question, if an aircraft is able to be fitted with a hook, how does one work out the engine power requirement? Is it a hit and miss affair? Or is there a calculation that can be done? Sorry, can't help with that question. Regards,                 ----------------.        .----------------                    ----------    \  __  /    ----------                       --------    \(..)/    --------                           -----    ;\/;    -----                              ---- :    : ----                                 --:    :--                                   //..\\                                  VV    VV                                  '//||\\`                                    ''``                                 Peregrine!    "Flying is learning to throw yourself at the ground, and.... miss."                 --- Ford Prefect

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