glider launcher

This whole project is a work in progress, and this little sling-launch thing is just a distraction, but it's neat... so here it is. I hesitate to call it a "glider," but I guess that's what this version is. Obviously all credit for the original design goes to John Dyke, and the plans that I...

To be honest, I wasn't certain I could build one that could launch a balsa glider with any consistency, but I may have lucked out here and made something that works fairly well. Just sharing my results here. I just searched around my house and found just the right combination of materials to...