You live near Annapolis right?
I live about halfway between Annapolis and BWI.
That's a short ride across the Bay Bridge...
Depends a lot on what your definition of "short" is.
...from what we always called the "eastern shore".
We still call it the Eastern Shore - 'cept we've always capitalized it.
There are thousands of square miles of mostly farm land out there with straight dirt roads running any direction the wind might blow.
Wow. Sounds like really great surface tow country. Hard to imagine why in all these decades there's never been any surface tow activity worth mentioning.
For example, in a few seconds on Google maps, I found a little field with an east-west dirt road running through the middle of it just east of Browntown Road and north of Morgnec Road off of Route 298. Here's the approximate lat/lon: 39.2862, -75.94408.
And if you go SW of there to Chestertown and then a wee bit SW of Chestertown you arrive on my Quaker Neck Lower Kent County Audubon Christmas Bird Count territory. And that's a LONG FUCKING WAY as far as I'm concerned. And it's an even longer fucking way coming back.
If that one's not suitable for any reason, just look around. There are plenty just like it.
If any of it was suitable and viable something would've been up and running from the beginning of time through now.
If you really wanted to stay in the flying game, you'd find a way ...
How many times do I hafta explain to you that I really DON'T wanna stay in the flying game? And that if I WERE in the flying game I'd be finding my way out of it as quickly as possible?
...just as I have.
Congratulations. Knock yourself out. Keep at it and you might even reach the point at which you'll be able to prone out for four or five seconds. And if you do please get it on video so's we can document a historic Dockweiler Beach first.
But I suspect you're far more interested in your keyboard crusade than in actually flying.
When have I ever given the slightest indication of anything to the contrary?
That's just another thing your groupies should know about you.
- Whoa! And on top of being an unrepentant child molester. If that doesn't break the camel's back nothing will.
- My "groupies"...
http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=877
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Bob Kuczewski - 2017/05/07 20:06:24 UTC
In short order Tad's gang was on the attack.
In under six months my vicious gang has devolved into groupies. Must be doing something wrong. The only thing I can think of is giving pretty much everybody Moderator privileges.
What you seem to be NOT GETTING is that there's a whole shitload of things that need to be going REALLY RIGHT on a major scale for a flatland operation to stay viable. And even bumpy soaring sites tend not to be walks in the park. They need ramps, clearing, mowing parking, access road maintenance, LZs, launch crews, shuttle and retrieval drivers, medevac choppers.
Highland Aerosports had the DREAM setup. They got handed the keys to Ridgely Airpark, had major population centers - Washington, Baltimore, Philly - from which to pull in an endless stream of bucket listers and the odd legitimate student here and there, and two well established clubs of us paying muppets lined up all weekend long getting the safety of our towing operation increased by nonstop standard aerotow weak link pops.
And they had scooter tow training where Jim Keen-Intellect Rooney worked tirelessly to get all their students solid on the fundamental 36 techniques for executing perfectly timed flares on the old Frisbee in the middle of the training field.
They killed two tug pilots (one a founder) - totaling two 914 Dragonflies in the process, broke the neck of one of our long established Fours, massively and permanently vegged one of their student products, broke the usual number of arms on failed stunt landing attempts, pumped some major dickheads into Flight Park Mafia circulation, got their rocks off by bullying and harrassing Yours Truly and orchestrated his three month and nine year suspension from his old club's forum.
Oh. And there was a fatal crash of some kind of aircraft that appeared to be for recreational purposes just across the road from the Ridgely Airpark. But it's highly unlikely that it had anything to do with the hang gliding operation.
And they IMPLODED. And their infrastructure became really expensive scrap metal. So how come you're not telling Sunny Venesky, what's left of the Elchin clan, Jim Keen-Intellect Rooney how easy it would be to get something going on a farm road with a 2010 Toyota pickup and a couple thousand feet of polypro tied to the trailer hitch?
You have no fuckin' clue what's required in the way of critical mass to get a couple dozen gliders up off a runway in the space of a soaring window and sustain the operation. But of course Highland Aerosports really didn't either which is a good chunk of the reason they went extinct two years plus a week ago. See if you can take a lesson from their experience and understand that your back-of-the-envelope sketch idea for sustainable towing in this neck of the woods north of Blue Sky is every bit as viable and outstanding as the revolutionary aerotow release design Paul Hurless assured us all he'd thought of.
But I think you actually do have a clue and are just reacting the way you always do when you sense you've painted yourself into a corner.
Speaking of which... Still waiting for the Official Bob Show definition of a hang glider. But whatever it turns out to be I have every confidence that you'll be able to safely tow it by tying one end of a rope to the trailer hitch, the other to the middle of the basetube, and using your easily reachable razor-sharp cutting tool to slice through the line in an instant. You sure don't wanna put that guy's vote outta reach.
P.S. Bob...
In the last years of my active flying career I wouldn't fly more than half a dozen days a season. Light wind, good thermal outlook, roll up to the setup area, get in line, stay up a couple hours, land next to the setup/breakdown area, go home and recover for a couple days. Fuck anything south of that. And fuck that too 'cause the only place I wanna see douchebags like my old buddies are squirming in my sights - where I have them now.
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P.P.S. - 2017/10/24 09:50:00 UTC
But I suspect you're far more interested in your keyboard crusade than in actually flying.
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No shit, Sherlock. NOTHING gets by you, Bob.
That's just another thing your groupies should know about you.
Keep 'em coming, Bob. There may yet be two or three details of my nefarious agenda, motivations, personal life that you haven't ferreted out and used to enlighten my groupies - and, of course, seeing how this is a totally public forum, the public at large. And there's a limit to the speed at which I can delete your posts and repeatedly pull your plug.
Pretty tough for someone like you imagining anybody who doesn't think, plot, maneuver like you, isn't it Bob? I can certainly relate to that 'cause I have the same problem from my end of the spectrum. But after years of experience ya start seeing the clear patterns from which ironclad predictions can be made.