At 09:43 PM 1/22/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>I just purchased a bunch of free flight hand launch glider kits from
>Stan Buddenbohm - a well known ffhlg designer and pilot. With my kits he
>enclosed a photo of a hand launched glider he called a "folder". The
>wings on this thing are tucked in during launch and upon transition the
>wings "unfold". I was wondering if anyone ever though of this idea for
>rchlg's. You could probably get a lot more launch altitude with the
>wings tucked in - sort of like throwing a javelin that has wings that
>pop out when maximum altitude it reached.
>
>Here is a photo of the folding wing glider:
>
>http://members.home.net/cliff/fold3.jpg
>
>cliff
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Back in the mid 80's, Paul Carlson sold an HLG kit named the Tantrum that
incorporated such a folding wing concept. Somewhere in my attic, I have a
Tantrum kit that I bought from Paul at Toledo tha last time I went to that
show (1985 I think). Guess the idea didn't prove practical since I never
saw or heard of anyone throwing a Tantrum (HLG, not a fit) :-)
Chuck Anderson
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