When the minimum is the best

[Plane]

Schulgleiter SG 38 @ Spitzerberg easter saturday

[Plane]

Less than minimum.

Homemade Woopy fly

[Plane]

Orbit wheel en Guatemala

[Xavier_Onassis]

What is pulling the plane up into the air in the first video? There si a rope, but there is nothing visible at the other end of it.

In the second, this looks like a lot of equipment to get a sprained ankle. I looks like more wind or a cliff would be necessary to get this guy into the air.

The third one was an interesting design for a skate,

[Plane]

Gliders can be launched by towrope , best by another aircraft with strong engines , but it has been done with Jeeps , trucks , boats and winches.

To use a winch you have to have a powerfull and fast winch, and a very long towrope.

It has even been done with streched bungee, but that is kinda the hard way.

Glider Winch Launch, 0 - 1900ft in 45 seconds

[Plane]

Hunt with duct tape
The Swiss Arrow (Pathfinder Dart)

[Xavier_Onassis]

Gliders can be launched by towrope , best by another aircraft with strong engines , but it has been done with Jeeps , trucks , boats and winches.

To use a winch you have to have a powerfull and fast winch, and a very long towrope.

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All these are methods that CAN be used, but look at the video: there seems to be nothing connected to the tow rope.
\I suppose it is a much thinner line attached to it and to a plane, but too thin or light in color to see.

[Plane]

very simple stove




Swedish Fire Torch

[Plane]

Gliders can be launched by towrope , best by another aircraft with strong engines , but it has been done with Jeeps , trucks , boats and winches.

To use a winch you have to have a powerfull and fast winch, and a very long towrope.

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All these are methods that CAN be used, but look at the video: there seems to be nothing connected to the tow rope.
\I suppose it is a much thinner line attached to it and to a plane, but too thin or light in color to see.

All of these methods depend on having a very long towrope.

I don't really know because I can't see any more than you did what they are useing to tow, but from the way they are doing it I suspect a truck or winch is being used. notice that they don't gain great altitude and the towrope is at a steep angle when they seaprate.

[Xavier_Onassis]

I suspect a truck or winch is being used. notice that they don't gain great altitude and the towrope is at a steep angle when they seaprate.

I agree it is a steep angle. Is it your opi8nion that there is a truck or a winch in the sky?

[Plane]

Hahahahaha!

Check the one in which the winch is visible, think these guys are selling the wenches.

I don't know how I would be able to tell a truck tow from a winch launch if the machine were out of sight.

.Glider Winch Launch, 0 - 1900ft in 45 seconds

[Xavier_Onassis]

I can't see the tow line, can you?

[Plane]

Yes , they don't release it untill the line is just about vertical.
Try viewing full screen

 
If you want to see a bizzare tow scheme , check out the trokia-shlepp.
An excellent example of growing complexity causing problems.
The tow vehicles tangles one time and brought down all three towplanes with the glider full of paratroops on top of them ,... ,no survivors, this stood as the worst single aircrash for about twenty years.

Messerschmitt Me 321/323 Gigant