August 6, 2008
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!