A number of years ago a ASW-15 did 2 laps of Leeton's airfield after the crew had taped the gaps around the airbrakes. Apparently the tape broke away easily before flight but couldn't be moved after a flight in the sun. Fortunately for the pilot he didn't outland, the canopy was also taped on!
Kevin From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Shirley Sent: Tuesday, 15 April 2008 8:31 AM To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Sideslip landing 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 -- <Crucial> whats a quick way to push ipconfig /release, ipconfig /renew to 50 or so workstations <Mo> cycle power to the building _____ _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
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