flyingcheesehead
Touchdown! Greaser!
This is cool to watch, no matter who you support. Shows how the banner ops work:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WlJm5tAZ5I
Cool! Have you thought about flying banners, Kent?
What's the odds??? Kate has time in that plane!
http://www.airspeedalive.com/flightlog/aircraft.html
pretty nice supercub, but flying with the door shut is sacrilege
We have several banners guys using our place.
It is 75 degrees thanks to GW!!Dude, Tony, you do realize it's NOVEMBER right? Otherwise I'd agree with ya.
It is 75 degrees thanks to GW!!
The later.GW Bush or Global Warming.
(Maybe we can call it that again instead of Climate Change. Wow. We even get our language back! THANKS, BARACK!)
We had a 152 and a 172(?) doing banner ops at Clow this summer. And then they'd bring the banners up to Schaumburg by my work! Fun to watch them.In fact, the place I ran into this plane, and the only place I've ever seen a banner op doing pickups, was at Campbell, I think the day that I came down to get checked out in your plane.
Towing banners is an excellent way to build hours.
or to kill yourself ..Sorry for being sarcastic, but I've seen it happened
You know, that can be said for EVERY segment of Aviation.
Yes but not every segment of aviation crashes due in attempt to pick up the banner
OK, I give up. How does he grab the banner with the hook without snagging it on the tail wheel. I've never seen this setup up close to figure out how it works. I actully used to think they took off with the banner attached, but I now realize that would be WAY too much drag for the airplane to overcome.
. But you make it sound like it is the most dangerous thing you can do in an airplane.
If I meant to write "the most dangerous" I would write "the most dangerous"
Well, they have a hook attached either to a rod or a rope, not sure which, that trails several feet behind and below the airplane. They don't hook it on the tow hook that is installed on the airplane.
When I was in school, they had a Helio Courier that was capable of taking off with the banner attached. They would lay it out in the direction the airplane would take off so it wouldn't create that much drag.
Well, they have a hook attached either to a rod or a rope, not sure which, that trails several feet behind and below the airplane. They don't hook it on the tow hook that is installed on the airplane.
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Well, they have a hook attached either to a rod or a rope, not sure which, that trails several feet behind and below the airplane. They don't hook it on the tow hook that is installed on the airplane.
When I was in school, they had a Helio Courier that was capable of taking off with the banner attached. They would lay it out in the direction the airplane would take off so it wouldn't create that much drag.
That rope is about 75' long and has a big triple meathook affair on the end. The weight of the hook makes it drag some distance below the airplane. You fly a few feet above the pickup poles and add full power as you approach them so that the sudden huge drag doesn't pull your airplane down.
I found that the biggest hassle was dropping the hook and rope out the side on downwind without it snagging something or without the rope pulling the latch off the towhook and losing the whole thing. Wouldn't want to do that over anything but empty fields.
Dan
I always thought banner towing would be fun. I haven't seen one around here since the stadium TFRs went up. We used to always see them circling Jacob's Field during games.
kent the rope the pilot holds is connected to a glider-style tow release mechanism.
so they dont drag a big grappling hook behind them on takeoff?