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Freedom Flyer:
Here's a pic of all my sailplanes, someday I hope to have a mouldie or 2 in there.

Freedom Flyer:
I know I posted this on another part of this forum, but these are my two older brothers, this Senior Telemaster is mine.  We use these when the wind isn't blowing and we want to try some thermal activity.







This is my Oldest brother Arlen and I, and this is his Senior Telemaster built by my brother Wayne in the above picture.

andrew wallace:
hi tracy welcome aboard
some nice looking models there

i'm interested in the cradle you have on the tele master any close up shots of it, what method did you use to keep the glider on the cradle

i've done a bit of aero-towing in the past and i've always been the tug pilot but now i want to the the glider pilot and this might be a good method for me to get a flight  :D

andrew wallace:

this is my hanger 9 cub with a 30cc dle engine i use for towing


and this is my 2.5m cm pro discus on tow, ive had some great flights with this model off a flat field

Freedom Flyer:
Wing is bolted on plane with 4 nylon bolts so I have utilized the wing bolts to mount glider cradle



Here's a pic from the back, the rubber bands up top stretch over the wing, across the leading edge down to a couple of music wire forks mounted through the dowel. I mounted the release servo flat and have a string going from the servo to a piece of music wire that is pulled back to release the dowel with the forks attached. pretty mechanical but seems to be pretty fail safe.





Here's one of two pics with rubber bands stretched over the wing to the forks



Note the wire protruding through the slot perpendicular to the one in the end of the dowel, that's the one that has the string attached to it going to the servo.  The opposite end of that wire is attached to the opposite side of the cradle.




This is a picture of one of the wing supports, I made these adjustable as I haul up different wing configurations and needed to be able to  move the supports up to the bottom of the different kinds of wings, I found these to be extremely important. Any breeze or wind during climb out to launch altitude will tip a larger plane to one side or the other causing all sorts of fun for the power plane pilot.  Also be in sync. with the glider pilot and ready with your finger on the release switch and ready to dump the glider should you encounter some difficulty




Just another picture of the bands stretched over the wing to the dowel forks



A drawing of the dowel fork




Hope these drawings help explain how the release mechanism works




Here's a couple of pics of my Goldberg cub, I don't use it for anything except flying

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