So Patrick (Plawner) and I decided that we’re not taking these delays any longer.
We’re going to tow! (weather permiting…)
Patrick’s got the perfect platform for this; his Multiplex Magister. It even has already a
tow release mechanisme, how cool is that!

Now, being the careful bugger that I am, I would prefer to rely on my own tow release mechanism.
I took a Carbon Fiber tube I had lying around, and inserted a crossbar at one end. I then inserted
the tube in the nose (crossbar up front), with the other end of the tube ending in the cockpit.

A servo was “borrowed” from my Champion Glider, and inserted in the cockpit with double sided tape. It’s getting crowded in there.

The idea is to have the towline’s end loop pushed through the nose under the crossbar,
and held in place by a pushrod on top of the bar. To release, the servo will pull the pushrod back,
thereby releasing the towline.

My dillema is this:
The nose tube is very small, so it will be near impossible to secure the loop at the nose end.
Instead, I was thinking of pulling the towloop through to the cockpit, then put the pushrod through
the loop, and thread the whole thing back to the nose. The only problem with that is that no pushrod
is flexible enough to bend that far in the confined space available, and still be rigid enough to secure the towline.

The solution I was thinking of: a two or three piece pushrod, connected by heatshrink tubing.

What do you think?