This was in our latest club newsletter Controline but

[pipemakermike]

not as we know it.  I seems to be a very interesting presentation of a launching system for remotely piloted target planes using a rotary launching method.  I looks as though a number of the US modelling heros of the late 40's were involved



Go here to find a powerpoint presentation:-

http://ed-thelen.org/RCATS&WhirlygigV5.ppt

[Tim Wescott]

Those fools!  Don't they realize that they've guaranteed that the plane will hit the windsock every time?

It looks like a good way to reliably launch an RC plane with primitive controls and a possibly inexperienced pilot.

[Steve Helmick]

The pilot's circle is much too large. The cost in judges' lives will be astronomical.  Steve