An225 Being Aeo-Towed

No, not the real thing!

Simon Cocker achieved the Guinness Book of Records for the world's largest model airplane for his freeflight An-225. Here's a video of it being aero-towed into the air in Cheshire UK back in 2003.

I have also seen a video of it being hand launched at a slope soaring site in the Lancashire hills.  Regrettably, it doesn't seem to be findable on the net.  If anyone has any information I think we're going to start a model airplane category here to collect all these examples of the victory of enthusiasm over common sense!