Re: Shortest distance flown by wood?? :D
- From: "wannathermal@xxxxxxx" <wannathermal1@xxxxxxx>
- Date: 29 Apr 2007 07:24:24 -0700
On Apr 29, 3:25 am, cherokee3...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Made it a whopping 16.5 nautical miles (30.5 kilometers) downwind from
the airport today.
Sorry C3, I've got you beat!
On my first flight in a wood glider, a K8 I had a 150 meter flight!
Due to a slight language problem, my German is not very good and the
flight instructors English, while better than my Deutsch, did'nt
convey the fact that I would need to slowly move the stick back from
the "finger on the panel" position at the beginning of the winch
launch! After a normal but extremely short ground roll the plane rose
into the air. Then of course the winch driver seeing that I was not
rotating into the proper position correctly reduced power to the
winch. At this point the parachute started to open as the plane
overflew the cable! I released, checked the airspeed whigh was fine
and landed short of the landing area. The instructor commented on my
reaction to the "out of nominal" launch. And that evening I bought him
a bier!
Oh yeah, 10 minutes later I was going up the winch launch normally and
got a 2 hour fun flight.
Bob
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