Aerotow in rough conditions
Saulius Guobužas - 2012/04/16 00:40:53 UTC
Utena, Lithuania
Hi guys, this time we tried to aerotow in turbulent conditions with side winds. Hope you like it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu1MPb2zfxA
So what was the problem with Antoine's video?Jim Gaar - 2012/04/16 03:18:37 UTC
WooHoo ProTow with a mouth release! First time I get to see it in action!
Saulius Guobužas - 2012/04/16 08:26:01 UTC
Mouth release works perfectly. Thanks for comments.
Jim Gaar - 2012/04/16 14:35:09 UTC
Do you have a good solid source for those mouth releases?
I would like to buy one.
Saulius Guobužas - 2012/04/16 17:59:26 UTC
Well, it has been made somewhere in Russia and I believe shipping to the USA would be difficulty, though I could ask about that. But I have blueprint of it, so if you want I could send that to you.
Kinda makes ya wonder a bit why after a couple of decades of mainstream aerotowing that they've never been made available on any measurable level - don't it, Davis?Jim Gaar - 2012/04/16 18:28:12 UTC
Any shipping info would be great. For instance I could send you cash and you could buy one and ship it to me?
I'm not skilled enough to build one but I would like to see any schematics that you have. I think this release could sell well in the US.
Thanks
Jim
Fuck you.Jim Gaar - 2012/04/27 03:34:28 UTC
Sure it can bite you...
We adapt and fly on, lesson learned each time.
Weak-links break! They are supposed to...we are ready for that. It's what we do.
From the link saerog will shortly reference:Saulius Guobužas - 2012/04/16 18:28:12 UTC
This is my current mouthlock, it releases when you open your mouth.
http://www.e1.ru/fun/photo/view_album.php?id=32439
some much better photos of the release he's using:
http://www.e1.ru/fun/photo/view_album.php?id=32439&pic=2e5b047ac9c6b34d099d5e7722de6e6b&page=0#top
http://www.e1.ru/fun/photo/view_album.php?id=32439&pic=a39a4a3a18b44894abacb95af845160a&page=0#top
http://www.e1.ru/fun/photo/view_album.php?id=32439&pic=f4f7d6cc7a55305642c1f2a67bc68c8d&page=0#top
http://www.e1.ru/fun/photo/view_album.php?id=32439&pic=24cc1664f8fa310f14fcd6f438d37c01&page=0#top
http://www.e1.ru/fun/photo/view_pic.php/p/f4f7d6cc7a55305642c1f2a67bc68c8d/view.pic
http://www.e1.ru/fun/photo/view_album.php?id=32439&pic=acccea05c2c064ce38c706aa8f799ab4&page=0#top
Maybe you could send somebody over to get his diapers changed while you're at it.Tomorrow I will find out whether it is possible to get more locks. If so I could send it to you.
Jim Gaar - 2012/04/16 20:12:14 UTC
That would be awesome!!!
I'll check around to see how many we might want to purchase at the same time.
Might just be one but I'm interested if you can get one or more.
Thanks
Saulius Guobužas - 2012/04/16 20:32:33 UTC
I will find out that tomorrow.
They couldn't possibly be any good, Davis. If they were...Davis Straub - 2012/04/16 21:46:05 UTC
Rob Kells Meet, Florida Ridge
All the Russian pilots here at the Rob Kells Meet have them.
http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24534
It's a wrap
...Quest Air would've perfected them by now. We're you able to make them see the light and set them up with any of your bent pin masterpieces?Paul Tjaden - 2011/07/30 15:33:54 UTC
Quest Air has been involved in perfecting aerotowing for nearly twenty years...
http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=14663Diev Hart - 2012/04/17 01:46:50 UTC
I would like one.
Aerotow Incident
Fuck you again.Diev Hart - 2009/12/02 06:45:13 UTC
I'm Tad...
..."well now if you had my mouth release this would have never even been an issue"...
The same goes for the finger string on the basetube release for that matter...
Saulius Guobužas - 2012/04/18 06:14:20 UTC
I asked my friend about these locks. He said he has no more, but he promised me to find supplier.
Yeah, Holly coulda really used that kind of release the better part of seven years ago. But her asshole "instructor" couldn't have been interested much less when a bit over seven years ago Steve Kinsley was down at Manquin trying to give them away.Jim Gaar - 2012/04/18 14:44:08 UTC
Thanks for looking as there is a need for this kind of release!
Fuck you.Meantime how about yooz amerikan engineers come up with one of these do-dads?
Hope you can get some of these into circulation on this side of the Atlantic as well.deltaman - 2012/04/27 01:02:56 UTC
Look at these Mouth Releases lighter, without wire, and therefore by far easier to store in the harness:
http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=25527
Mouth AT Releases
You can do it yourself or I can do it for you if you need (PM)..
or
Get fucked. Here's what you said the last time he tried to show this stuff to you:Jim Gaar - 2012/04/27 03:19:35 UTC
Hmm very interesting...
How much head tilt do you think it takes?
Anything to keep the hands on the CB!!
What makes you think he's learned to read in the past month and a half?
Saulius Guobužas - 2012/04/27 11:26:17 UTC
Here's the original photos from the guy that makes them:
http://www.e1.ru/fun/photo/view_album.php?id=32439
That's his info:
21073@mail.ru
Name is Aleksandr Kaluzhin.
Haven't been in touch with him for a while so not sure what is the situation. Back then he charged $55 for one with shipping to Europe if you bought 6 pcs.
Also I sold one to Chad May. He's from hg.org. Here's his report:
http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=21242
No, that was Davis demonstrating once again just how much a single loop of Cortland 130 pound Greenspot braided Dacron Tolling line placed at one end of a shoulder bridle improves the safety of aerotowing.Alan Deikman - 2012/04/27 16:50:32 UTC
Fremont, California
I never saw a mouth-release before. From watching just the video I thought that he had a weak-link break.
Butchering the speed range is the problem with the potential to get you killed - but nobody talks much about that.One question - I only see an attach point to the harness - do these tow setups not use an attach point to the keel of the glider? Doesn't this make the pitch pressure difficult?
So somebody explain to me again why Wills Wing isn't cranking these things out.Saulius Guobužas - 2012/04/27 20:05:28 UTC
Towing rope is attached to chest only. I didn't try towing setup with keel attached to chest, for me it is not hard to keep pitch in good levels, you just need to control it.