Woodruff, South Carolina. August 2006
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These are BIG planes. Wingspans of 3 meters and up. Too big to launch from a bungie cord or a winch. Instead, they are launched in the same manner as full-size gliders - towed to altitude by a tug like the red one shown here and on the preceding page. |
| And they are scale planes
- patterned to duplicate a full-sized sailplane on a smaller scale.
Great lengths are gone to in order to achieve realism. I swear this guy looked like he was breathing. |
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