Aerotow 2010 - August 14th/15th

How would you modify a plane to be a tug?
I dont know if anyone would want me tuging them up anyways

Oh Sam.....out of the mouths of babes etc etc
Dates clash with PSSA at the Orme, so I may do aerotow on one day, and PSSA on 'tother.

I`ll be there with 'Cath on tug duties, and a couple of gliders

How far back from the nose should I fix a hook on my Wildthing? anyone?

just by your ears !
PS it will be crap at aerotowing.

As far as possible! Preferably a wingtip!

Marty wrote:How far back from the nose should I fix a hook on my Wildthing? anyone?

If your going to fix a hook on it then the bungee will be best, fit it 5-10mm in front of the CoG, if it's a nose release that wording gives it's location away, 10-20mm behind nose but it's solid foam so won't work, tape a peice of string onto the nose & leave it attached & the tug will release you

The wildthings go great off the bungee

Tim wrote:just by your ears !
PS it will be crap at aerotowing.

Not true Tim they actualy go quite well, just dont stay in the air very long, a few years ago now we had 3 of them on the back of a tug and raced um back to the deck, right laff that was!

M

little foamy gliders are great for towing. remember all the fun with andys flip and multiplex fox. we even towed my weasel that worked great.

hehe should have said tugged my weasel. hey andy you tugged my weasel!!

Thats odd, my post has disappeared. I posted earlier to say I meant that it would be crap at actual"gliding" rather than slope soaring - I agree it will go well, but not for long LOL

Heh heh, tugging a weasel. I also tossed your weasel so hard, it's nose came off.

As I said, if anyone wants anything that isn't normally considered an aerotow model, so long as you have a method of fastening a short bit of string/line/ribbon of an appropriate breaking strain to the front of it, we can get it aloft with the soon to be revealed "Tugmeister 2000" *

Cheers
Andy

*- all rights reserved, patent pending, prices may go up as well as down. Available in pink too.

Well Andy, fancy putting on a real firey show? I recon my xeno behind your buger burner would be a wheez, especially if the tow line was really short! on reflection, it would be more dramatic at night!

Xeno towing should be fine Perhaps not with the Jet, but it will definately go up on tow fine. Adding a tow hook should be pretty easy too, there is plenty of structure to hang it off on the Xeno

Andy

I was thinking more along the lines of setting fire to the xeno with the jet after burner! lol 'bout all it's good for.

why?
seems a waste of a model

Well Sam, I am not a fan of the xeno, even when it was new, and mine has been bounced around the big rock a few times now and has gained a little weight but it's always been sluggish in the air!
The only reason I got it was because I thought it would be handy on (to quote you) "the big lump of metal". The first thing that failed was the hinge so it instantly lost the facility I bought it for so a spectacular "flaming" end would be the highlight of the xeno's miserable existance!

Oh right.. in that case. andy can you get us some expolisves please
haha
Yeah, burn it in the sky!!
But it could crash into the pits or the crop feild and set them on fire...

Early weather forecasts are showing this weekend as being semi-decent weather wise! Could this be the first RDMFC aerotow in ages that we have soem decent weather? Fingers crossed!

Don't forget we will have means of towing pretty much anything in the air, so bring your wildthings, foamies, chuck gliders, anything!

Andy

can I fly my cougar?
Or is it stricktly gliders only?

Bring it along, so long as you cut the engine and glide into a landing, you can fly it Seriously though, we are not going to be uber strict about what can and cannot fly. Obviously if there is a big queue of gliders waiting to go up, then we might ask you wait a short while, but realistically, I think we can accommodate everyone this weekend

Andy

ive got a brick, can you tow that andy?

is that the one with the rough surface designed to increase laminar flow?

I think it is to marty, What airofoil have you got on her leigh?