Back in about 1968/9, Alexander Schleicher produced the ASW12 - a
fibreglass glider with a span of about 20m, glide angle well over 45 - a
seriously hot ship at the time and a worthy competitor for the early
Nimbus and Kestrels of the day.
One of the ways AS decided to achieve this was to not fit any airbrakes
at all, and to rely only on a tail chute for approach control.
Having acquired one of these, an American gentleman decided that he
would try to learn to land the thing without using the tail chute,
reasoning that the chute was bound to fail some time. After several
hair-raising attempts involving sideslips, nearly cleaning up the fence
on approach, actually hitting the fence at the far end, various ground
loops and an excursion through the tiedown area, our intrepid aviator
decided not to continue with this exercise. This story was related by
the pilot quite grahically in a book whose title I forget, but no doubt
Emilis will recall it.
The ASW12 had a short history, thankfully.
Cheers
Tim
D S Baker wrote:
I found this rather interesting. A fellow's flying a Schweizer SGS
2-32 in the US, and was practicing landing without divebreaks. He says
somewhere in the comments that it was a 6000foot runway and he used
almost all of it
As with many of the other people that commented, I love the very
innocent "Oh my gosh, what's he doing?" and "That was like, very umm..."
It also makes you think about the good ol' days when this was common
practice.
Airbrakes? Luxury, we used to DREAM of havin' airbrakes...
Anyway: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hSbEMBb6XQ
Enjoy :)
Dion
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