“Can we………”? “Yes we can”!!! Awesome!!! Spent a lot of time in these two venerable birds. (Not in the last one) Long time ago though. Brings back memories.
The good old K8... I feared it alot during winch launch. Because- You cant do anything. Youre just a kite. But in thermals I liked it even more than the K6. ❤
To be honest, I've watched a lot of these launches, both the bungee launches and the gravity ones, and I believe in these launches the pilots stay low because the bungee cord is still in the hook, and they stay low until the bungee comes off. Otherwise if they even just maintained a straight flight from launch it would pull up on the people holding the ends of the bungee cords.
“Can we………”? “Yes we can”!!!
Awesome!!!
Spent a lot of time in these two venerable birds. (Not in the last one)
Long time ago though. Brings back memories.
Lot of work for the guys left on the ground. True friends!
K8, K13, K21. Flew all three lovely gliders. Did my fist cross country in the K8 off a winch launch.
My first solo flight was 37 years ago , ASK13 in Japan.
Brrrrrrr! Reminds me of my early hang gliding days ,ridge soaring in 20 knot winds in -10 C temperatures .
What a great way to get a glider into the air.
The way it was done by almost everyone pre WW2.............
The good old K8... I feared it alot during winch launch. Because- You cant do anything. Youre just a kite. But in thermals I liked it even more than the K6. ❤
The Schleicher K8 has a listed stall speed of 30 knots. A bungee launch into a 30 knot headwind sounds ideal for ridge soaring.
But the ASK-21 got me a little scared at the end...
Not sure if they are keen or crazy…😮😮😮😮. Laurie NZ. K13 was second? Which is what I learned to fly in…
Those are the three types that I did most of my glider training in duration the late 70s/early 80s.
graceful
Pure fun.
😮 Not bad!
Notice how they don't try to climb right after launch to pickup speed 1st? Last thing you don't want to do is stall so close to the ground.
To be honest, I've watched a lot of these launches, both the bungee launches and the gravity ones, and I believe in these launches the pilots stay low because the bungee cord is still in the hook, and they stay low until the bungee comes off. Otherwise if they even just maintained a straight flight from launch it would pull up on the people holding the ends of the bungee cords.
In germany it is called Ka8.
A K13 was crashed this year at Long Mynd due to a poor bungey launch. Plane a write-off.
Glidiung can be grroot fugn