Thursday, July 02, 2020

I stumbled across a vintage glider facebook page


and that looks like a high dollar car, with the trunk lid removed, so it can tow a glider. That's rare.

I've only come across 2 cars that towed gliders, one was a Duesenberg that Howard Hughes used at his pilot training facility, it had a winch in the back


https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2016/05/howard-hughes-had-this-duesenberg-body.html


the other was this Rolls Royce


https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2016/04/1927-boat-tail-rolls-royce-20hp-sports.html

I have also posted about P38s and a C47 towing gliders into submarine pens, https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2016/09/one-amazing-scoreboard.html 

and horses at a ranch in California towing a glider into flight.
https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2017/05/i-dont-think-ive-ever-heard-of-horses.html

https://www.facebook.com/groups/www.vintagegliderclub.org/permalink/3410499555635352/

3 comments:

  1. I used to belong to this club years ago.
    https://www.facebook.com/groups/597085957000393/photos/

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  2. Check out this vintage photo...Pontiac used as tow car for lifting body. https://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/M2-F1/HTML/EC92-04152.html

    Also, there apparently is a long history of Pontiacs and ultra high performance aircraft. On the Mythbusters episode where Jamie rides in an SR 71, the chase car is a Pontiac as an example.

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    1. Posted it 7 years ago. https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2013/06/most-far-out-thing-ive-seen-in-while.html

      You'll enjoy looking through the archives someday. There's a lot of cool stuff in them

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