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                     Total Messages Posted Wed 04/16/03: 2
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     1. 04:17 AM - Need Trailer help/advice  (Vaughn Brock Capt ESC/AWXO)
     2. 07:29 AM - Re: Need Trailer help/advice  (Jim Oke)
 
 
 
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Time: 04:17:26 AM PST US
From: Vaughn Brock Capt ESC/AWXO <Brock.Vaughn@hanscom.af.mil>
Subject: Sailplane-List: Need Trailer help/advice

--> Sailplane-List message posted by: Vaughn Brock Capt ESC/AWXO <Brock.Vaughn@hanscom.af.mil>

I am looking for plans to find a way to secure my glider on a flat bed
trailer.  I saw a nice version in a magazine that actually unloaded from the
front. The system had a channel on top of the tongue in which the assembled
glider rolled down the front with a small 2 foot ramp located at the hitch.
Obviously the trailer was not attached to the vehicle.

I was curious how to construct a wing saddle and the attachment point at the
root.  I don't know the best way to secure a glider to the flat bed either.


I'm really looking for proven designs and nothing too creative.  

Any thoughts?


BROCK VAUGHN, Capt, USAF
Branch Chief, AWACS Plans, Programs & Operations
ESC/AWXO 3 Eglin Street, Hanscom AFB, MA 01731
Office 781 377-7843 Fax 5776 (DSN 478) Home 781 354-6656






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Time: 07:29:30 AM PST US
From: Jim Oke <wjoke@shaw.ca>
Subject: Re: Sailplane-List: Need Trailer help/advice

--> Sailplane-List message posted by: Jim Oke <wjoke@shaw.ca>

Hi Vaughan;

Sounds like you have a glider and a ready made flatbed trailer and are
looking for fittings to load the first onto the second.

Best advice would be to look over a commercially made glider trailer and
copy as much of the design of the fittings as you need to do the job. I
don't like to oversimplify but this is not "rocket science"; what you need
is a welder/machine shop guy who can cut up and weld steel tube to your
taste.

A google search turns up a fair number of glider trailer references with
useful pictures. Here are two for starters:

http://www.mmfabrication.com/index.htm
http://www.mindspring.com/~hennulat/komet.htm

The Komet trailers are well recognized as a good design.

Good luck and happy soaring.

Jim Oke
Winnipeg, MB
ASW-20, C-GPON - ready to saor anytime!


----- Original Message -----
From: "Vaughn Brock Capt ESC/AWXO" <brock.vaughn@hanscom.af.mil>
Subject: Sailplane-List: Need Trailer help/advice


> --> Sailplane-List message posted by: Vaughn Brock Capt ESC/AWXO
<Brock.Vaughn@hanscom.af.mil>
>
> I am looking for plans to find a way to secure my glider on a flat bed
> trailer.  I saw a nice version in a magazine that actually unloaded from
the
> front. The system had a channel on top of the tongue in which the
assembled
> glider rolled down the front with a small 2 foot ramp located at the
hitch.
> Obviously the trailer was not attached to the vehicle.
>
> I was curious how to construct a wing saddle and the attachment point at
the
> root.  I don't know the best way to secure a glider to the flat bed
either.
>
>
> I'm really looking for proven designs and nothing too creative.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>
> BROCK VAUGHN, Capt, USAF
> Branch Chief, AWACS Plans, Programs & Operations
> ESC/AWXO 3 Eglin Street, Hanscom AFB, MA 01731
> Office 781 377-7843 Fax 5776 (DSN 478) Home 781 354-6656
>
>