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Launching your Green Hobby Glider

There are many ways of launching a sailplane. Some need equipment and others require nothing at all.

2. Hand or Winch Tow: Like launching a kite it is effective, bicycles and fishing line are very useful for this! Suits young modellers very well.

1. Hand launching from the top of a ridge: All the slope soarers do this. It works great for small gliders and slope soarers. You just throw them outwards into the slope lift. It's also be effective for thermal gliders.

See this on our video web page with the "Joy" clip.

3. Glider Tug Towing: This is like the real thing with a large R/C model tug towing the sailplane aloft and releasing it by use of an R/C servo operated release mechanism.

It really looks the business, but you have a lot to organise what with large glowengine models as well as your glider.

4. Motor & folding propeller: The usual method for flat flying sites. A motor glider climbs fast, so very high . this is by far the most used method of getting a glider to height.

You can catch a video of this method in the "Daisy" clip on our video web page.

5. Bungee Catapult: The most visually exciting method of launching, the 30' Green Hobby bungee is like a big slingshot that catapults your model into the air. To launch, you simply peg the other end down, pull the bungee tight, point the plane into the wind and let go. When the plane overtakes the bungee, it flies off the line. Simple, economical, independent.