Are dive brakes on gliders the same as spoilers?

I always understood the purpose of spoilers was to destroy lift and not specifically to reduce speed.

At last the rain stopped for the last stage of the journey for Proctor ZK-AQK..

A short tow from her shed where she has been for several years and through the lush green pastures of Rangitata!

Careful loading on the transporter..

She wont be going anywhere we dont want her to with all these strops on her..

Thanks TC.
We dont want to tow her backwards as most of the trip would be on State Highway One and if the wheel should go over the edge of the seal (shoulder), which would be very likely, that would put a terrific strain on it in the direction the leg is not stressed for. I have seen a photo of a Proctor with a ‘broken leg’ through doing that and it did not have the engine in but ours has and will be consequently heavier. The distance is about 60km, rough guess, at least three bridges and god knows how many milk tankers along the way! The road for most of the way is just single lane each way.

Is the cabin flat underneath? I am thinking if she is flat underneath of a full sheet of ply with the strops under that. With a rubber mattress on the ply that could sit on the truck deck with the legs hanging down. I really dont want to make it difficult for the guy with the truck.

I would love to see her back in the air but ours is an all volunteer museum with limited resources. We have almost three dozen aircraft now but the very best we can do for them is to assemble and paint them and keep them dry and warm. Maybe some of them will be in the air again one day and we try not to do anything that would complicate someone doing that but in the meantime we just keep them cozy and show them to the public seven days a week. Some of our aircraft were flying until they went into our hangar, Simmonds Spartan is fully airworthy, the DC3 was in the air until a few weeks ago but finally ran out of “papers”, the Tri-Pacer and the Beech Skipper flew here and the Tiger Moth was airworthy when she went into the hangar. Some of the gliders are airworthy. I hope you can visit us one day!

Maybe oneday she will fly again but meanwhile she will be in a cosy hangar looking her best until her Prince Charming comes to call, (not saying we would want to part with her or any of the others though!)

So what do you think, would she be happy sitting on the truck on a rubber mattress with the legs dangling down?

Thanks

John

He was accompanied by two ships. no mention of other aircraft. 😀

I think the camera man might have been in another aircraft!:)

maybe around 2.5k ? :confused:

I have been trying to send a motorcycle to the UK but with freight and VATetc 4k becomes something over 7k and the sale falls through. I assume it would be the same with an old jet engine.:confused:

I wonder what one should expect to pay for a Derwent, non runner, exhibition only.