[simpits-tech] This is too cool...

[Brian West]

Hi,
    Believe it or not my first ever flight was a Bungee Launch on a  flat
playing field, I forget now what the Glider was called (probably R.A.F. Mk
1)  but they were an open girder fuselage wooden machine that were used to
train Cadets way back when.
I think Bungee launches were used before WW 2  for launches for slope
soaring with full size gliders. you're right about the bungee it was about
2" thick.

 Regards,  Brian West.


-----Original Message-----
From: Bubba <mysticz28 at swbell.net>
To: Simulator Cockpit tech list <simpits-tech at simpits.org>
Date: Saturday, March 27, 2004 2:43 AM
Subject: Re: [simpits-tech] This is too cool...


>RickInNoCal at aol.com wrote:
>>
>> Quite often, back when I was a kid. RNGSA used to do bungy launches
>> of the
>> bluffs up nr Lossiemouth in northern Scotland when my dad was posted
>> there.
>
>Really? I thought that only worked with models. Would take a helluva bungee
>cord :)
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