I suspect the article was:
"Is the ASW-12 for everyone?" by George Worthington
On 15/04/2008, at 10:56 AM, Catherine Conway wrote:
I think I read an article by the gentleman in question in an old US
Soaring magazine.
-Cath
On 15/04/2008, at 8:01 AM, Tim Shirley wrote:
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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