Pretty close. Execute that system using only rope, without any eyes on the end, or steel rings and you have the principle nailed down.
Good job finding the video, thanks. I notice it's grouped with a couple other videos of folks with "remote tail wheel tie down release". It's an old problem. How do you self prop the airplane [before batteries and electric starters] and not kill yourself or lose the airplane. Long forgotten skills... likely only even remembered by old guys [like myself]... On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 11:21 AM, OK Don via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com > wrote: > This is not the knot you are referring to, but it looks like it works: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibkAkm_gid8 > > > On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 11:18 PM, G Mann via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com > > wrote: > > > I thought the challenge was still open.... > > > > Clue: When you pull the rope, the knot releases completely and your rope > > slips out of the tail wheel cleanly... as long as the aircraft pulls on > the > > knot... it only gets tighter, can't slip. > > > > I'm not sure I can do a verbal picture with any success. > > > > On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 9:02 PM, Craig via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com > > > > > wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 16 May 2018 12:55:10 -0700 G Mann via Mercedes > > > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > > > > > OK, tech test time. > > > > Who here knows the special knot you use to tie the tail wheel, that > > > > runs to the rope you run to the cockpit, that will let you hand prop > an > > > > airplane, safely, then climb in, strap in, pull the tail wheel rope > > > > release, take in the rope, and let you taxi away to fly? > > > > > > Well, you never did tell us, Grant! > > > > > > > > > Craig > > > > > > _______________________________________ > > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > > > -- > OK Don > > *“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of > our people need it sorely on these accounts.”* – Mark Twain > > "There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The few who > learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence > for themselves." > > WILL ROGERS, *The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers* > 2013 F150, 18 mpg > 2017 Subaru Legacy, 30 mpg > 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph! > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
